Drew Rasmussen

On the record · career milestone this season

500 career strikeouts — Wed, Jun 10 · day game vs. Boston Red Sox The scorecard → · The write-up →

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FlagshipDrew Rasmussen #64 · 2026 Topps · 38 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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The rookieDrew Rasmussen #RA-DR · 2021 Topps Gallery Rookies Autographs · 147 recent sales 7N ▲0%

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Scout’s note

Rasmussen, 31, from Puyallup, Washington, was a sixth-rounder in 2018 who debuted in 2020 and has 602 career strikeouts in 160 MLB games. This season for Tampa Bay: 174 strikeouts, a 2.67 ERA over 172.0 innings, seventh in ERA, fourth in the league in wins with 16. He's Index-ungraded by design — the stuff model isn't outcome-validated, so no arm earns a flag. The ERA-FIP luck gap cleared the bar, and regression calls come by hand. The player matters; the science catches up when it catches up.

Note written Oct 7 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Rasmussen is in the Index ungraded, on purpose: our stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no big-league arm gets a board flag from it — not even one of the best seasons in the sport. (Calls are another matter: the ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and we file arm regression calls by hand from it.) The page is here because the player matters; the board grade waits for the science.

WAR (season · MLB calc)

5.0

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 December 16, 2023.

2026 salary

$20.00M

Tax hit

$20.00M

Service time

6 yr 111 d

Guaranteed

$9M

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, Tampa Bay Rays.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of September 17, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$4.25M

Guaranteed

$8.50M

Term

2 yrs

His class

Extension

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.

The Wire

△ On the field: Fired up to face college teammate and friend Kwan in playoffs, calling him one of the sport's greatest humans.

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Collect Drew Rasmussen

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The Bureau on Drew Rasmussen

The scouting press, in their own words