Joe Ryan

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FlagshipJoe Ryan [Gold] #54 · 2026 Topps · 63 recent sales 7N ▼5.6%

$1.76Raw$12.70PSA 9$37.65PSA 10$49.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieJoe Ryan #48 · 2022 Topps Chrome · 54 recent sales 7N ▲0%

$1.42Raw$9.50PSA 9$18.25PSA 10$24.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

The seventh round of the 2018 draft turned up a 30-year-old from San Francisco with 138 strikeouts in 125.2 innings for Minnesota this season — a 3.65 ERA across 23 games and 2.7 WAR. Ryan sits in the Index without a board grade: our stuff model isn't outcome-validated, so it doesn't hand out flags. The ERA-FIP luck gap did clear the bar, though — the regression call is filed by hand, and the grade can wait.

Current signals

The read: Ryan 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 9, 2026.

2026 salary

$6.10M

Tax hit

$6.20M

Service time

4 yr 33 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, Minnesota Twins.

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

$6.20M

Guaranteed

$6.20M

Term

1 yr

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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