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Hancel Rincon
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 160 lb · born Los Llanos, Dominican Republic · age 24 · played P 50 · MLB debut 2026-09-04
Last 14 days (through 2026-10-11): 1 G · 1.0 IP · 0.00 ERA · 2 SO · 0.00 WHIP
96 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Hancel Rincon, 24, from Los Llanos in the Dominican Republic, debuted September 4, 2026. He has three strikeouts in three career games, and in his last two weeks at the MLB level he fanned two in a single appearance.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Rincon here — The Buzz September 6, 2026
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- Service time
- 0 yr 8 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, St. Louis Cardinals.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . 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
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
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 Hancel Rincon
The scouting press, in their own words
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Umpire favor
-0.1 net runs over 1 graded game — an even shake from the zone this season.
Biggest swings: -0.1
The line
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