Alimber Santa

A moment

A combined no-hitter from Tatsuya Imai, Steven Okert and Alimber Santa — Tatsuya Imai, Steven Okert and Alimber Santa combined on a no-hitter. A completed game without a hit allowed. Read it →

The card rack

FlagshipAlimber Santa [Reptilian Refractor] #BCP-30 · 2026 Bowman Chrome Prospect · 133 recent sales 7N ▲0%

His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.

$1.41Raw$12.26PSA 9$36.59PSA 10$48.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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Scout’s note

A 23-year-old from Azua in the Dominican Republic, Santa carries a stuff grade of 0.69 — 96th percentile among the 751 AAA arms we track, where the median is 0.05. That's elite raw material. What the engine can't vouch for yet is command: 9 strikeouts across 15.1 big-league innings tell you the whiff rate hasn't caught up to the stuff. A 1.17 ERA is nice; it's not the number that earns the next call. He's a watchlist arm, and the stuff comes first.

Current signals

The read: Santa's stuff grade of 0.69 ranks in the 96th percentile of the 767 AAA arms we track (median 0.05). Stuff is not command — watchlist, not a call — but stuff comes first.

Stuff-lite

0.6861

Pitches

620

Age

23

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of August 23, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.16Mest

Tax hit

$0.16M

Service time

0 yr 0 d

Options left

3 / 3

Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Houston Astros.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 20, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

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.

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