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Ryan Helsley

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 235 lb
Number: #21

Born: July 18, 1994 in Tahlequah, OK, United States
MLB debut: April 16, 2019
Drafted: 2015, round 5
College: Northeastern State
Salary, 2026: $14M

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dbWAR: 5.2
IP: 15.1
ERA: 4.11
FIP: 4.67
K/9: 12.3
FIP−: 112

Ryan Helsley is a relief pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. In 2026 he struck out 21 batters over 15.1 innings across 17 appearances, going 0-4. His ERA of 4.11 was 1.7% lower than the league average of 4.18. Stripping out defence, his 4.67 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 37.9% of swings (17.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 30.9%. His -0.0 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2026 regular season.

FIP4.67

K/912.3

WHIP1.43

WAR-.0

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2026	BAL	17	15.1	0	4	8	13	7	21	9	4.11	4.67	1.43	12.3	5.3	98	112	-0.0
2025	STL/NYM	58	56.0	3	4	21	61	28	63	25	4.50	4.14	1.54	10.1	4.0	108	99	0.3
2024	STL	65	66.1	7	4	49	50	15	79	23	2.04	2.41	1.10	10.7	3.1	50	59	1.7
2023	STL	33	36.2	3	4	14	22	10	52	17	2.45	2.25	1.06	12.8	4.2	57	52	1.1
2022	STL	54	64.2	9	1	19	28	9	94	20	1.25	2.34	0.74	13.1	2.8	32	59	1.6
2021	STL	51	47.1	6	4	1	40	24	47	27	4.56	3.99	1.42	8.9	5.1	107	94	0.4
2020	STL	12	12.0	1	1	1	8	7	10	8	5.25	7.02	1.33	7.5	6.0	118	158	-0.3
2019	STL	24	36.2	2	0	0	34	12	32	12	2.95	4.22	1.25	7.9	2.9	65	94	0.3

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																					Trend
2019	STL	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.000	1.000	0.0%	66.7%	.291	-0.1	80	0.0	—

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Ryan Helsley's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	IP	L	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2022 Post	STL	Wild Card	1	1.0	1	1	4	2	2	36.00	3.00	18.0
2020 Post	STL	Wild Card	2	1.2	0	1	1	0	2	5.40	0.60	10.8
2019 Post	STL	Postseason total	5	5.1	0	1	0	1	8	0.00	0.38	13.5
		NLDS	2	1.1	0	1	0	0	3	0.00	0.75	20.3
		NLCS	3	4.0	0	0	0	1	5	0.00	0.25	11.3
Career		Postseason total · 3 Octobers	8	8.0	1	3	5	3	12	5.63	0.75	13.5

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2026. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	48	42	9	2	6	17	.214	.313	.381	.304	35.4%
vs RHB	20	17	4	1	3	4	.235	.350	.471	.362	20.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Ryan Helsley throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	45.1%	123	98.7	2,579	46.3%	33.3%	27	.222	.825
Slider	38.8%	106	87.9	2,423	47.2%	37.0%	22	.227	.729
Splitter	12.1%	33	90.1	1,447	51.5%	50.0%	9	—	—
Curveball	4.0%	11	81.5	2,531	45.5%	50.0%	2	—	—

Ryan Helsley's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.