Ryan Ward

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FlagshipRyan Ward [Orange Foil] #98 · 2026 Topps Now · 37 recent sales 7N ▼0.9%

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Scout’s note

An eighth-round pick out of Worcester, Massachusetts in 2019, Ward is 28 and batting .218 with a .738 OPS across 20 games for the Dodgers. His EV95 of 105.5 sits at the 55th percentile of the 444 Triple-A bats we track — just above the 105.0 median. No luck gap prints for him: the measure needs major-league results, and there is nothing to call fair or mispriced. His last 14 days — .375, four homers, 1.168 OPS — the engine has no sample to check against.

Current signals

The read: Ward is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 105.4 (55th percentile of the 455 qualified Triple-A bats we track; median 105.0). The engine prints no luck gap for him: that number is measured off major-league results and he has none this season, so there is nothing here to call fair or mispriced.

EV95 (mph)

105.425

xVal (MLB grid)

0.3837

Balls in play

276

Age

28

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 21, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.19Mest

Tax hit

$0.19M

Service time

0 yr 0 d

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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, Los Angeles Dodgers.

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

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

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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