PH · 2023

Adam Wainwright

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralPH

Age: 42
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 7"
Weight: 230 lb

Born: August 30, 1981 in Brunswick, GA, USA
MLB debut: September 11, 2005

dbWAR: 11.4
PA: 2
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -117

Adam Wainwright was a position player for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2023 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .734. He averaged 102.1 mph off the bat, hit 100.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -117 wRC+ puts his offence 217% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -0.5 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, -0.1 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2023.

wRC+-117

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These four terms sum to -0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-117	-0.1
2021	33	74	7	0	4	3	25	.123	.167	.158	.035	.219	4.1%	33.8%	.151	-10.3	-16	-0.8
2019	29	59	8	0	2	2	20	.160	.189	.220	.060	.258	3.4%	33.9%	.178	-7.3	2	-0.5
2018	8	12	1	0	1	0	6	.091	.091	.091	.000	.200	0.0%	50.0%	.080	-2.3	-66	-0.2
2017	24	50	11	2	11	1	15	.262	.279	.452	.190	.360	2.0%	30.0%	.311	-0.6	94	0.1
2016	32	69	13	2	18	2	17	.210	.234	.452	.242	.256	2.9%	24.6%	.291	-1.7	81	0.1
2015	4	10	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	20.0%	.000	-2.5	-125	-0.2

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2023	21	21	101.0	5	11	151	83	55	41	7.40	5.99	1.90	4.9	3.7	171	138	-0.8
2022	32	32	191.2	11	12	192	79	143	54	3.71	3.66	1.28	6.7	2.5	93	92	2.7
2021	32	32	206.1	17	7	168	70	174	50	3.05	3.66	1.06	7.6	2.2	72	86	3.4
2020	10	10	65.2	5	3	54	23	54	15	3.15	4.11	1.05	7.4	2.1	71	92	0.9
2019	31	31	171.2	14	10	181	80	153	64	4.19	4.36	1.43	8.0	3.4	93	97	1.9
2018	8	8	40.1	2	4	41	20	40	18	4.46	4.28	1.46	8.9	4.0	108	103	0.4
2017	24	23	123.1	12	5	140	70	96	45	5.11	4.29	1.50	7.0	3.3	117	98	1.3
2016	33	33	198.2	13	9	220	102	161	59	4.62	3.93	1.40	7.3	2.7	110	94	2.6
2015	7	4	28.0	2	1	25	5	20	4	1.61	2.13	1.04	6.4	1.3	41	54	0.8

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2023. 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 LHP	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHP	1	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2023. 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	231	200	70	9	29	25	.350	.429	.600	.437	10.8%
vs RHB	253	238	81	11	12	30	.340	.375	.550	.396	11.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 102.1
Max exit velo: 102.1
Hard hit: 100.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -8.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity102.1 mph

Hard hit rate100.0%

Contact rate66.7%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2023.

Situational hitting

How Adam Wainwright hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2023.

Pitch sequencing

What Adam Wainwright 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, and how often it misses in 2023.


Sinker	31.4%	560	86.9	2,167	40.0%	9.4%
Curveball	30.6%	546	71.5	2,647	39.9%	15.4%
Cutter	22.6%	404	82.9	2,321	40.6%	15.2%
Four-Seam Fastball	10.0%	178	85.7	2,158	41.6%	13.1%
Changeup	5.0%	89	81.4	1,655	23.6%	10.0%

Adam Wainwright'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.

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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.