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Ryan Zeferjahn
B/T R/R · 6' 5" · 209 lb · born Topeka, KS, USA · age 28 · draft 2019 rd 3 · played P 130 · MLB debut 2024-08-25
304 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Ryan Zeferjahn is a 28-year-old right-hander from Topeka, Kansas, drafted in the third round in 2019. He has 185 strikeouts in 139 career games, and over his last four MLB appearances he struck out four — steady, unremarkable relief work.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
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.
- 2026 salary
- —est
- Service time
- 2 yr 38 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — | — | — | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago Cubs.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 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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The Bureau on Ryan Zeferjahn
The scouting press, in their own words
You will not be surprised to find out that Ryan Zeferjahn cuts the heck out of his fastball. https://t.co/4U7DxYyUw8
Umpire favor
-0.6 net runs over 32 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The postseason
Ryan Zeferjahn’s playoff games, each on its reconciled card. Kept apart from the season line below — none of it is counted in a season number on this page.
- NL Wild Card Series, Game 2 · CHC vs. SD · 1.1 IP, 2 K, 0 ER
The line
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