Ryan Helsley

Scout’s note

Ryan Helsley is a 32-year-old right-hander from Tahlequah, Oklahoma, a fifth-round pick in 2015 with 398 strikeouts in 314 career games — a late-inning arm whose fastball has been his living since his 2019 debut.

Note written Oct 5 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.

2026 salary

$14.00M

Tax hit

$14.00M

Service time

7 yr 105 d

Guaranteed

$28M

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, Baltimore Orioles.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of October 12, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$14.0M

Guaranteed

$28.0M

Term

2 yrs

His class

FA

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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