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Yadier Molina

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralC

Age: 40
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 225 lb

Born: July 13, 1982 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico
MLB debut: June 3, 2004

dbWAR: 32.6
PA: 270
AVG: .214
OBP: .233
SLG: .302
wRC+: 47

Yadier Molina was a catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2022 he hit 5 home runs and knocked in 24 RBIs, notching 56 hits across 270 plate appearances in 73 games. His batting average was .214, 11.9% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .233 clip and slugged .302, for an OPS of .535, 24.3% lower than the league mark of .706 — the second worst on his team, and 441st of 469 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 84.7 mph off the bat, hit 26.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.7% of them and made contact on 78.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 47 wRC+ puts his offence 53% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -16.7 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, +0.2 on the bases, -1.0 on double plays, +4.7 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, 2022 regular season.

wRC+47

wOBA.235

ISO.088

BB%1.9%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2022. These terms sum to -4.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2022; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2022	STL	73	270	56	5	24	2	5	40	.214	.233	.302	.088	.234	1.9%	14.8%	.235	-16.7	47	-0.5
2021	STL	121	473	111	11	66	3	24	79	.252	.297	.370	.118	.283	5.1%	16.7%	.291	-10.4	86	1.0
2020	STL	42	156	38	4	16	0	6	21	.262	.303	.359	.097	.281	3.8%	13.5%	.292	-4.0	80	0.2
2019	STL	112	452	113	10	57	6	23	58	.270	.312	.399	.129	.289	5.1%	12.8%	.304	-7.1	90	1.3
2018	STL	123	503	120	20	74	4	29	66	.261	.314	.436	.174	.264	5.8%	13.1%	.325	+2.9	107	2.2
2017	STL	136	543	137	18	82	9	28	74	.273	.312	.439	.166	.285	5.2%	13.6%	.318	-2.7	99	2.2
2016	STL	146	581	164	8	58	3	39	63	.307	.360	.427	.120	.335	6.7%	10.8%	.344	+10.6	118	3.4
2015	STL	135	530	132	4	61	3	32	59	.270	.310	.350	.080	.295	6.0%	11.1%	.290	-11.4	83	1.4
2014	STL	110	445	114	7	38	1	28	55	.282	.333	.386	.104	.307	6.3%	12.4%	.320	+2.1	101	2.1
2013	STL	135	541	161	12	80	3	30	55	.319	.359	.477	.158	.338	5.5%	10.2%	.367	+20.3	139	4.6
2012	STL	138	563	159	22	76	12	45	55	.315	.373	.501	.186	.316	8.0%	9.8%	.380	+27.0	143	5.4
2011	STL	136	518	145	14	65	4	33	44	.305	.349	.465	.160	.311	6.4%	8.5%	.357	+14.7	129	3.5
2010	STL	131	521	122	6	62	8	42	51	.262	.329	.342	.080	.281	8.1%	9.8%	.303	-9.2	86	1.1
2009	STL	138	544	141	6	54	9	50	39	.293	.366	.383	.089	.309	9.2%	7.2%	.340	+3.3	108	2.5
2008	STL	123	485	135	7	56	0	32	29	.304	.349	.392	.088	.310	6.6%	6.0%	.329	-1.4	99	1.7
2007	STL	107	396	97	6	40	1	34	43	.275	.340	.368	.093	.295	8.6%	10.9%	.317	-6.3	89	0.9
2006	STL	122	461	90	6	49	1	26	41	.216	.274	.321	.106	.226	5.6%	8.9%	.267	-27.1	54	-0.9
2005	STL	111	421	97	8	49	2	23	30	.252	.295	.358	.106	.254	5.5%	7.1%	.289	-14.3	71	0.5

Pitching Regular season

																				Trend
2022	STL	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	6	4	1	0	18.00	15.11	3.00	4.5	0.0	454	381	-0.3	—

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 batting

Postseason Yadier Molina's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2022 Post	STL	Wild Card	2	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.125	.125	.125	.250
2021 Post	STL	Wild Card	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2020 Post	STL	Wild Card	3	14	13	2	6	2	0	2	1	1	0	.462	.500	.615	1.115
2019 Post	STL	Postseason total	9	37	33	2	5	0	1	3	1	3	0	.152	.216	.242	.459
		NLDS	5	23	21	1	3	0	0	2	1	2	0	.143	.174	.143	.317
		NLCS	4	14	12	1	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	.167	.286	.417	.702
2015 Post	STL	NLDS	3	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.125	.125	.125	.250
2014 Post	STL	Postseason total	6	22	21	2	5	1	0	0	0	3	0	.238	.238	.286	.524
		NLDS	4	15	15	2	3	1	0	0	0	3	0	.200	.200	.267	.467
		NLCS	2	7	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667
2013 Post	STL	Postseason total	17	69	62	4	17	2	1	4	7	10	0	.274	.348	.355	.703
		NLDS	5	20	17	2	5	1	1	1	3	3	0	.294	.400	.529	.929
		NLCS	6	25	22	2	5	0	0	1	3	4	0	.227	.320	.227	.547
		World Series	6	24	23	0	7	1	0	2	1	3	0	.304	.333	.348	.681
2012 Post	STL	Postseason total	13	55	49	5	13	1	0	4	5	2	0	.265	.345	.286	.631
		Wild Card	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	5	23	17	3	2	0	0	1	5	1	0	.118	.348	.118	.465
		NLCS	7	28	28	2	11	1	0	2	0	1	0	.393	.393	.429	.821
2011 Post	STL	Postseason total	18	75	67	7	20	5	0	12	7	11	1	.299	.360	.373	.733
		NLDS	5	20	19	1	4	0	0	1	1	5	1	.211	.250	.211	.461
		NLCS	6	26	24	5	8	3	0	2	2	3	0	.333	.385	.458	.843
		World Series	7	29	24	1	8	2	0	9	4	3	0	.333	.414	.417	.830
2009 Post	STL	NLDS	3	13	13	0	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	.308	.308	.385	.692
2006 Post	STL	Postseason total	16	59	53	5	19	4	2	8	6	5	0	.358	.424	.547	.971
		NLDS	4	13	13	0	4	1	0	1	0	2	0	.308	.308	.385	.692
		NLCS	7	26	23	2	8	1	2	6	3	2	0	.348	.423	.652	1.075
		World Series	5	20	17	3	7	2	0	1	3	1	0	.412	.500	.529	1.029
2005 Post	STL	Postseason total	9	35	35	2	10	3	0	3	0	3	0	.286	.286	.371	.657
		NLDS	3	13	13	1	3	0	0	3	0	1	0	.231	.231	.231	.462
		NLCS	6	22	22	1	7	3	0	0	0	2	0	.318	.318	.455	.773
2005–2022		Postseason total · 12 Octobers	100	399	366	29	101	19	4	36	27	43	1	.276	.329	.361	.690

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 he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2022. 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	66	63	16	1	2	10	.254	.288	.317	.270	15.2%
vs RHP	204	199	40	4	3	30	.201	.216	.296	.224	14.7%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2022. 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	7	7	4	2	0	0	.571	.571	1.429	.842	0.0%
vs RHB	5	5	2	0	0	1	.400	.400	.800	.511	20.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2022.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 223 tracked batted balls in 2022. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.7%
Exit velocity: 84.7
Max exit velo: 107.8
Hard hit: 26.0%
Sweet spot: 35.4%
Launch angle: 16.9°

Barrel rate2.7%

Exit velocity84.7 mph

Hard hit rate26.0%

Contact rate78.0%

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, 2022.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .242.

Situational hitting

How Yadier Molina 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	270	—	—	—	—	—	—	.214	.233	.302	.235
Bases empty	153	150	28	2	2	3	22	.187	.203	.260	.204
Runner on first	66	64	15	2	4	2	14	.234	.258	.344	.264
Runners on	117	112	28	3	22	2	18	.250	.274	.357	.276
RISP	51	48	13	1	18	0	4	.271	.294	.375	.292

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2022.

Pitch sequencing

What Yadier Molina 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.


Curveball	50.0%	20	53.2	1,475	30.0%	0.0%	8	—	—
Fastball	30.0%	12	61.2	1,528	58.3%	0.0%	2	—	—

Yadier Molina'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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Similar players

Nearest 2022 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Jonathan SchoopDET

wRC+: 54
HR: 11
AVG: .202
WAR: -0.9

Mauricio DubónHOU

wRC+: 56
HR: 5
AVG: .214
WAR: -0.5

Leury GarcíaCWS

wRC+: 35
HR: 3
AVG: .210
WAR: -1.3

Maikel FrancoWSH

wRC+: 65
HR: 9
AVG: .229
WAR: -0.7

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.