Dylan Cease

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FlagshipDylan Cease [Holiday Sunshine Variation] #547 · 2026 Topps Series 2 · 39 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%

$1.99Raw$13.17PSA 9$39.26PSA 10$51.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieDylan Cease #RA-DCE · 2020 Topps Chrome Rookie Autographs · 242 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$17.03Raw$35.93PSA 9$89.00PSA 10$116BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

Dylan Cease out of Milton, Georgia, a sixth-round pick in 2014, is 30 and running one of the best pitching seasons in the sport: 209 strikeouts, a fourth-ranked 2.37 ERA, and a 5.0 WAR through 144.1 innings for Toronto. The Index carries him ungraded on purpose — the stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so no arm gets a board flag from it. The ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, and regression calls are filed by hand. That is where this season lives until the science catches up.

Current signals

The read: Cease 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 August 22, 2026.

2026 salary

$20.76M

Tax hit

$27.02M

Service time

6 yr 89 d

Guaranteed

$210M

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

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

$27.0M

Guaranteed

$210.0M

Term

7 yrs

His class

FA

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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The Bureau on Dylan Cease

The scouting press, in their own words