Ryan Helsley

Bats R Throws R6'2" 230 lbBorn 1994 Tahlequah, USADebut 2019Team NYM1x All-StarDraft 2015 R5 #161 St. Louis Cardinals, Northeastern StateContract 2 y/$28M (26-27) 2026: $14,000,000

Awards: All-MLB First Team, All-MLB Second Team, Trevor Hoffman NL Reliever of the Year

Projections

Season	BF	K%	BB%	HR%	1B%	XBH%	PITCH+
2026	185	26.3	8.8	2.61	21.3	6.13	105.8
2027							106.2
2028							105.4

Projected rates are per plate appearance or batter faced; counting stats scale with projected playing time. Statcast measurements inform these projections as inputs and are reported as measurements, not projected.

Most similar through age 30

His ten closest age-30 comparables averaged 98 PITCH+ the next season; 10 of 10 played. Averages cover only the players who got a next season, which is why the played count matters.

#	Player	Through	PITCH+ then	Next season	Next PA / BF
1	Jose Leclerc	2024	112.8	65.0	46
2	Mychal Givens	2020	111.1	99.0	216
3	Steve Cishek	2016	110.5	129.3	174
4	Jonathan Broxton	2014	112.9	96.7	257
5	Nick Vincent	2017	112.5	107.9	239
6	Dan Wheeler	2008	113.4	115.9	219
7	Ramon Ramirez	2012	109.7	36.0	29
8	Raisel Iglesias	2020	112.1	118.4	273
9	Hector Rondon	2018	110.8	101.6	257
10	Justin Wilson	2018	108.8	106.6	166

Batting

Year	Team	G	PA	H	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	HIT+
2025	NYM	58	0	0	0
2024	STL	65	0	0	0
2023	STL	33	0	0	0
2022	STL	54	0	0	0
2021	STL	51	0	0	0
2020	STL	12	0	0	0
2019	STL	24	3	1	2	0.333	0.333	0.333	0.667	75.5
Career		297	3	1	2	0.333	0.333	0.333	0.667	75.5

Pitching

Year	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	BF	HR	BB	SO	PITCH+
2027 proj									185				106.2
2026*									68				97.3	97.5	94.8
2025	NYM	3	4	4.50	58	0	21	56.0	252	8	25	63	90.9	99.0	89.8
2024	STL	7	4	2.04	65	0	49	66.3	266	3	23	79	119.4	98.4	117.7
2023	STL	3	4	2.45	33	0	14	36.7	146	1	17	52	122.7	99.3	121.9
2022	STL	9	1	1.25	54	0	19	64.7	239	6	20	94	134.6	102.3	136.9
2021	STL	6	4	4.56	51	0	1	47.3	206	4	27	47	104.0	98.2	102.2
2020	STL	1	1	5.25	12	0	1	12.0	52	3	8	10	95.9	99.7	95.6
2019	STL	2	0	2.95	24	0	0	36.7	153	5	12	32	103.3	98.4	101.7
Career		31	18	2.96	297	0	105	319.7	1314	30	132	377	111.8		111.2

Statcast

Year	PA	EV	LA	Barrel%	HardHit%	Whiff%	Chase%	xBA	xSLG	xwOBA	Sprint
2019	3	90.1	-34.2	0.0	0.0	50.0	55.6	0.022	0.022	0.020

Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	DP	Fld%	Runs saved
2025	NYM	P	58	56	10	5	0	1.000	-0.3
2024	STL	P	65	66	6	3	2	1.000	-0.5
2023	STL	P	33	37	2	3	0	1.000	-0.1
2022	STL	P	54	65	7	2	1	1.000	+0.7
2021	STL	P	51	47	3	8	0	1.000	-0.5
2020	STL	P	12	12	0	0	0		-0.0
2019	STL	P	24	37	0	3	0	1.000	-0.3

Runs saved covers the Statcast era; for catchers it includes framing.

Minor leagues

Year	Level	Team	Side	PA / BF	Line	AVG / ERA
2023	AA	Springfield Cardinals	Pit	20	4.0 IP, 20% K	9.00
2019	AAA	Memphis Redbirds	Pit	155	37.1 IP, 26% K	4.61
2018	AAA	Memphis Redbirds	Pit	106	26.2 IP, 32% K	3.78
2018	AA	Springfield Cardinals	Pit	174	41.0 IP, 25% K	4.39
2017	AAA	Memphis Redbirds	Pit	23	5.0 IP, 22% K	3.60
2017	AA	Springfield Cardinals	Pit	141	33.2 IP, 29% K	2.71
2017	A+	Palm Beach Cardinals	Pit	374	93.2 IP, 24% K	2.70
2016	A	Peoria Chiefs	Pit	378	95.0 IP, 29% K	1.61
2015	Rk	Johnson City Cardinals	Pit	171	40.1 IP, 20% K	2.02

Splits

Year	vs LHP	vs RHP	Home	Away
2019	0.000	0.450	0.000	0.900

wOBA by split, from pitch level data, 2015 on. For pitchers the split is the batter side faced.

Postseason batting

Year	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2020	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Career	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Postseason pitching

Year	L	ERA	G	IP	H	BB	SO	WHIP
2022	1	36.00	1	1.0	1	2	2	3.00
2020	0	5.40	2	1.7	1	0	2	0.60
2019	0	0.00	5	5.3	1	1	8	0.38
Career	1	5.62	8	8.0	3	3	12	0.75