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Ryne Stanek
B/T R/R · 6' 4" · 226 lb · born St. Louis, MO, USA · age 35 · draft 2013 rd 1 · played P 70 · MLB debut 2017-05-14
267 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Ryne Stanek, 35, is a first-round pick pitching for his hometown Cardinals, and over his last 14 days at the MLB level he has three appearances and one strikeout in what is now a long relief career — 536 games, 596 strikeouts.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Free agent after this seasonA 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
- $1.00M
- Service time
- 9 yr 38 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year $3.5M (2026), club option for 2027
On the sheet: 1 y/$3.5M (26)+27 cl opt ($3.5/$1) · agent EVOLV
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, St. Louis Cardinals.
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
- $3.50M
- Guaranteed
- $3.50M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $2.5M | $7.0M |
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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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 Ryne Stanek
The scouting press, in their own words
Cardinals in a tough spot. Need to add to roster to be competitive, obviously, but there aren't a ton of cuts on the 40-man here. Aggressively maybe five? Stanek only FA. two open spots right now, one goes to Rajcic.
Umpire favor
-0.9 net runs over 28 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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