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 →

The card rack

FlagshipDrew Rasmussen #64 · 2026 Topps · 47 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%

$1.29Raw$12.00PSA 9$35.65PSA 10$46.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieDrew Rasmussen #RA-DR · 2021 Topps Gallery Rookies Autographs · 67 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$14.63Raw—PSA 9$29.99PSA 10$39.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 43 nights

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Scout’s note

Fourteen wins for Tampa Bay — fifth in the league — sit behind Drew Rasmussen's name at 31, along with a 2.95 ERA across 140.1 innings, 143 strikeouts, and a 3.9 WAR. A sixth-round pick out of Puyallup, Washington, in 2018, he is in the Index ungraded: the stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no arm earns a board flag. The ERA-FIP luck gap cleared the bar, and those calls are filed by hand. The page is here because the arm matters; the grade waits.

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)

3.9

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 25, 2026.

2026 salary

$5.75M

Tax hit

$4.25M

Service time

5 yr 111 d

Guaranteed

$9M

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 August 20, 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.

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