MLB · CF · Arizona Diamondbacks
Ryan Waldschmidt
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 205 lb · born Sarasota, FL, USA · age 23 · draft 2024 rd PPI · played CF 103, LF 38, DH 1 · MLB debut 2026-05-08
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 12 G · .273 AVG · 1 HR · 6 RBI · .783 OPS
256 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipRyan Waldschmidt #BDC-18 · 2024 Bowman Draft Chrome · 117 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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The rookieRyan Waldschmidt #UR-10 · 2026 Bowman Under the Radar · 129 recent sales 7N ▼0.2%
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Scout’s note
Ryan Waldschmidt, a 23-year-old center fielder from Sarasota and a 2024 PPI pick, is batting .273 across 72 career MLB games. Over his last 12 MLB games he's matched that .273 average while walking five times against ten strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Waldschmidt here — The Buzz August 8, 2026
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 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.
- EV95104.227
- Deserved (xVal)0.39163
- Got (aVal)0.40980
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped0.03212
today · 30 days ago, against the 341 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
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
- $0.50Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.50M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
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, 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.
The Wire
△ On the field: Ryan Waldschmidt hits .296/.366/.449 with 3 HR and 126 wRC+ in 33 games since Triple-A recall.
X chatter, trailing 2 days · as of 2026-08-28 · newest post 2026-08-26 · summarized by Grok (xAI) · how this works →
Collect Ryan Waldschmidt
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The Bureau on Ryan Waldschmidt
The scouting press, in their own words
And the Chicago Cubs blow a 4-0 lead, and lose 5-4 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Ryan Waldschmidt's walk-off HR.
Umpire favor
-0.3 net runs over 30 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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