AAA · P · Toledo Mud Hens (DET)
River Ryan
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 195 lb · born Charlotte, NC, USA · age 28 · draft 2021 rd 11 · played P 8 · MLB debut 2024-07-22
Reassigned to Minors (roster status, as of )
The card rack
FlagshipRiver Ryan #RA-RR · 2025 Topps Chrome Rookie Autograph · 163 recent sales 7N ▼1.6%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
Ryan is a 28-year-old right-hander from Charlotte, North Carolina, an 11th-round pick in 2021 who debuted in July 2024 and has four career big-league appearances with 18 strikeouts. At Triple-A with the Oklahoma City Comets this season, he's struck out 43 in 36.1 innings with a 4.46 ERA. The market calls him the consensus No. 22 prospect in baseball; our stuff model grades him in the 96th percentile of the 745 AAA arms we track — which is to say the raw stuff is among the best we measure, even if the model can't tell you where the next strike is going.
Current signals
The read: The market calls Ryan the consensus No. 22 prospect in baseball; our stuff model grades him in the 96th percentile of the 767 AAA arms we track. Stuff is not command — but the market and the machine are looking at the same arm.
- Stuff-lite
- 0.698
- CSW%
- 29.5%
- Pitches
- 589
- Age
- 28
What he’s paid
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.12Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.12M
- Service time
- 1 yr 70 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
| Tax hit | — | — | — |
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Detroit Tigers.
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
- $0.80M
- Guaranteed
- $0.80M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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.
Collect River Ryan
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The Bureau on River Ryan
The scouting press, in their own words
River Ryan has been around a while... https://t.co/aXA394SFYO https://t.co/vvFgKwButX
Hey have you heard that River Ryan is older than the average pitching prospect? I wanted to look and see what recent history tells us about pitchers of his ilk. First off are there any starting pitchers with this profile? So I did three quick studies to try to find comparisons.
Tigers draft grade for me is a B+. It depends on what you think of Kash Mayfield, but you’re able to run out a rotation with Troy Melton, River Ryan when back from injury, and a returning Jackson Jobe. I really like that trio. Plus Zyhir Hope is a lot of fun, so is Brady Smith.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | IP | W–L | SV | ERA | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Rancho Cucamonga Quakes | A | 10 | 33.2 | 1–3 | 0 | 2.67 | 48 | 1.25 |
| 2022 | Great Lakes Loons | A+ | 5 | 14.0 | 1–1 | 0 | 1.93 | 22 | 1.21 |
| 2023 | Tulsa Drillers | AA | 24 | 97.1 | 1–6 | 0 | 3.33 | 98 | 1.25 |
| 2023 | Oklahoma City Dodgers | AAA | 2 | 7.0 | 0–1 | 0 | 10.29 | 12 | 2.00 |
| 2024 | Rancho Cucamonga Quakes | A | 1 | 2.0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 0.00 |
| 2024 | Oklahoma City Baseball Club | AAA | 5 | 16.1 | 0–0 | 0 | 2.76 | 19 | 1.16 |
| 2024 | Los Angeles Dodgers | MLB | 4 | 20.1 | 1–0 | 0 | 1.33 | 18 | 1.18 |
| 2026 | Oklahoma City Comets | AAA | 8 | 36.1 | 3–1 | 0 | 4.46 | 43 | 1.29 |
| MLB CAREER | 4 | 20.1 | 1–0 | 0 | 1.33 | 18 | 1.18 | ||
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