MLB · CF · Arizona Diamondbacks
Ryan Waldschmidt
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 205 lb · born Sarasota, FL, USA · age 24 · draft 2024 rd PPI · played CF 106, LF 47, DH 2 · MLB debut 2026-05-08
284 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
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FlagshipRyan Waldschmidt #BDC-18 · 2024 Bowman Draft Chrome · 84 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieRyan Waldschmidt #UR-10 · 2026 Bowman Under the Radar · 92 recent sales 7N ▲1.8%
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Scout’s note
Sarasota's Ryan Waldschmidt went in the 2024 PPI pool and reached Arizona by May. He's batting .256 across 82 games with 85 strikeouts; his last two MLB appearances this fall went 1-for-2, good for a 2.000 OPS.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Waldschmidt here — The Buzz August 8, 2026
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95104.127
- Deserved (xVal)0.38459
- Got (aVal)0.39776
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.02419
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
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 118 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Arizona Diamondbacks.
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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Umpire favor
-0.5 net runs over 34 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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