Gavin Williams

A moment

Gavin Williams' immaculate inning — Gavin Williams struck out the side on nine pitches. Only two of them were in the strike zone. Read it →

On the record · career milestone this season

500 career strikeouts — Tue, Jul 28 · night game vs. Cincinnati Reds The scorecard → · The write-up →

The card rack

FlagshipGavin Williams [Gold] #254 · 2026 Topps · 92 recent sales 7N ▼3%

$1.46Raw$12.38PSA 9$36.75PSA 10$48.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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The rookieGavin Williams #RC-GW · 2024 Topps Holiday Relic · 32 recent sales 7N ▼0.2%

$2.68Raw$13.71PSA 9$39.09PSA 10$51.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 45 nights

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Scout’s note

An even 2.6 WAR and 204 strikeouts across 156 innings, and still no board flag. The stuff model is stability-tested but not outcome-validated, so the grade waits — even for a first-round arm out of Fayetteville who has fanned 537 in 90 big-league games. Williams cleared the ERA-FIP luck gap, and the regression call sits in our hand-filed stack. At 27, the strikeouts rank third in the sport. The page is here because the player matters; the board grade waits for the science.

Current signals

The read: Williams 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)

2.6

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 7, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.82Mest

Tax hit

$0.82M

Service time

2 yr 103 d

Options left

3 / 3

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

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

$0.82M

Guaranteed

$0.82M

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.

Collect Gavin Williams

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The Bureau on Gavin Williams

The scouting press, in their own words