Sandy Alcantara

On the record · career milestone this season

1,000 career strikeouts — Tue, Jun 23 · night game vs. Texas Rangers The scorecard → · The write-up →

The card rack

FlagshipSandy Alcantara [Gold] #449 · 2026 Topps Series 2 · 48 recent sales 7N ▼0.2%

$2.34Raw$13.72PSA 9$40.90PSA 10$53.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieSandy Alcantara #RA-SA · 2018 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 93 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$15.05Raw$27.32PSA 9$55.00PSA 10$72.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 44 nights

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Scout’s note

From Azua in the Dominican Republic, Alcantara debuted in 2017 and has 1,062 career strikeouts across 204 games. The engine gives him 3.1 WAR — 131 strikeouts over 176.2 innings, a 3.46 ERA, and 13 wins ranking fifth. He is in the Index ungraded, on purpose: the stuff model does not yet validate outcomes, so the board withholds its flag. The ERA-FIP luck gap cleared the bar, and the regression call is filed by hand. At 30, those 176.2 innings tell you what the grade cannot.

Note written Aug 24 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Alcantara 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)

3.3

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 26, 2026.

2026 salary

$17.30M

Tax hit

$11.20M

Service time

7 yr 100 d

Guaranteed

$56M

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

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

$11.2M

Guaranteed

$56.0M

Term

5 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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The Bureau on Sandy Alcantara

The scouting press, in their own words