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Alika Williams
B/T R/R · 6' 1" · 183 lb · born San Diego, CA, USA · age 27 · draft 2020 rd CB-A · played SS 124, 2B 21, 3B 7 · MLB debut 2023-07-25
231 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
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Scout’s note
Williams's EV95 of 103.865 sits below the league median, and his results are outrunning that contact by more than 99% of the 406 hitters we track — a luck gap of 0.0806, No. 4 on the fade board. Drafted in Competitive Balance Round A in 2020 out of San Diego, the 27-year-old shortstop debuted in 2023 and is in his first season with the Athletics, hitting .270 with a .735 OPS across 88 games. That's a better line than his career .238 average, and the engine says the improvement is built on contact that doesn't fully support it. He's a glove-first shortstop — 183 pounds, 6'1", steady — and the bat has been better than expected. The engine just doesn't believe it yet.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Current signals
The read: Williams's results are outrunning his contact by more than 99% of the 406 qualified MLB hitters we track — an EV95 of 103.9 (league median 105.8) doesn't usually buy this stat line. Gaps like his tend to close from above; No. 4 of 15 on the fade board.
PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 103.865
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- 0.0806
- Overlay score
- -0.7078
- Sprint (ft/s)
- 28.0
- Age
- 27
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95103.924
- Deserved (xVal)0.2957
- Got (aVal)0.38365
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.0811
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- —est
- Service time
- 1 yr 163 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Athletics.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Arb 4 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
What we said about him
Filed before the fact, with a metric, a threshold and a deadline, and never edited afterwards. This is the call we have on him. The whole record →
results on contact, vs the filing baseline — -0.015 from a baseline of 0.3756 (frozen at filing, off games through ), by .
Resolved : +0.0071 against the -0.015 we called.
A call is filed with a metric, a threshold and a window, timestamped, and never edited afterwards. Corrections are appended and the original stands. Hits, misses and open calls are all counted at the ledger.
On the record
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The Bureau on Alika Williams
The scouting press, in their own words
‘29 3B/C Asher Williams (UT) 6’2” 210 frame producing easy exits 💯+ Athletic strength with imposing look in the box. Worked middle throughout with firm results. Good follow. #WCSSG26 || @PrepBaseballUT https://t.co/Y8WuE4ntNq
Pirates are sending RHP Kyle Robinson, 2024 11th-rder, who they got from the A's for Alika Williams earlier this year, to the Angels. https://t.co/dMcswTJ7am
Umpire favor
-0.0 net runs over 29 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Pittsburgh Pirates | MLB | 46 | 101 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 35 | .198 | .518 |
| 2024 | Pittsburgh Pirates | MLB | 37 | 87 | 13 | 18 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 22 | .207 | .541 |
| 2026 | Athletics | MLB | 88 | 215 | 29 | 58 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 10 | 50 | .270 | .735 |
| MLB CAREER | 171 | 403 | 49 | 96 | 4 | 27 | 3 | 22 | 107 | .238 | .639 | ||
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