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Brandon Crawford

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralSS

Age: 37
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 223 lb
Number: #35

Born: January 21, 1987 in Mountain View, CA, United States
MLB debut: May 27, 2011
Drafted: 2008, round 4
College: UCLA
High school: Foothill
Salary, 2024: $2M

dbWAR: 24.7
PA: 80
AVG: .169
OBP: .263
SLG: .282
wRC+: 57

Brandon Crawford was a shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2024 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 12 hits across 80 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average was .169, 30.5% lower than the league average of .243. He reached base at a .263 clip and slugged .282, for an OPS of .544, 23.5% lower than the league mark of .711. He averaged 89.7 mph off the bat, hit 33.3% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 6.7% of them and made contact on 64.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 57 wRC+ puts his offence 43% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -4.1 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.1 on the bases, +0.5 on double plays, +0.8 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, 2024 regular season.

wRC+57

wOBA.250

ISO.113

BB%10.0%

WAR-.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2024. These terms sum to -0.4 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.


2024	STL	27	80	12	1	4	0	8	26	.169	.263	.282	.113	.250	10.0%	32.5%	.250	-4.1	57	-0.0
2023	SF	91	320	55	7	38	3	28	81	.194	.273	.314	.120	.241	8.8%	25.3%	.262	-15.6	63	0.1
2022	SF	118	458	94	9	52	1	39	98	.231	.308	.344	.113	.280	8.5%	21.4%	.291	-7.7	86	1.3
2021	SF	136	549	144	24	90	11	56	105	.298	.373	.522	.224	.334	10.2%	19.1%	.380	+29.0	145	5.6
2020	SF	53	193	44	8	28	1	15	47	.256	.326	.465	.209	.303	7.8%	24.4%	.336	+2.3	109	1.1
2019	SF	146	560	114	11	59	3	53	117	.228	.304	.350	.122	.274	9.5%	20.9%	.283	-18.8	78	0.8
2018	SF	150	594	135	14	54	4	50	122	.254	.325	.394	.139	.302	8.4%	20.5%	.309	-4.3	93	1.9
2017	SF	144	570	131	14	77	3	42	113	.253	.305	.403	.151	.292	7.4%	19.8%	.305	-9.3	90	1.5
2016	SF	152	623	152	12	84	7	57	115	.275	.342	.430	.156	.322	9.1%	18.5%	.330	+4.2	105	3.2
2015	SF	143	561	130	21	84	6	39	119	.256	.321	.462	.205	.294	7.0%	21.2%	.336	+8.3	119	3.6
2014	SF	151	564	121	10	69	5	59	129	.246	.324	.389	.143	.307	10.5%	22.9%	.314	+0.2	103	2.7
2013	SF	145	550	124	9	43	1	42	96	.248	.311	.363	.114	.290	7.6%	17.5%	.300	-7.5	91	1.9
2012	SF	133	476	108	4	45	1	33	95	.248	.304	.349	.101	.307	6.9%	20.0%	.287	-12.0	84	1.1
2011	SF	61	220	40	3	21	1	23	31	.204	.288	.296	.092	.228	10.5%	14.1%	.270	-8.7	70	0.1

Pitching Regular season

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

																				Trend
2024	STL	1	0	1.1	0	0	0	3	4	0	2	27.00	9.92	3.75	0.0	13.5	662	243	-0.1
2023	SF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.00	6.26	2.00	0.0	9.0	0	144	-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 batting

Postseason Brandon Crawford'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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	SF	NLDS	5	20	20	2	5	1	0	1	2	0	4	0	.250	.250	.450	.700
2016 Post	SF	Postseason total	5	21	20	3	5	3	0	0	1	1	5	1	.250	.286	.400	.686
		Wild Card	1	4	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	.333	.500	.667	1.167
		NLDS	4	17	17	2	4	2	0	0	1	0	4	1	.235	.235	.353	.588
2014 Post	SF	Postseason total	17	70	61	7	15	2	0	1	9	7	15	0	.246	.314	.328	.642
		Wild Card	1	5	5	1	1	0	0	1	4	0	2	0	.200	.200	.800	1.000
		NLDS	4	19	17	1	5	1	0	0	1	1	4	0	.294	.316	.353	.669
		NLCS	5	19	16	3	2	1	0	0	0	3	3	0	.125	.263	.188	.451
		World Series	7	27	23	2	7	0	0	0	4	3	6	0	.304	.370	.304	.675
2012 Post	SF	Postseason total	16	54	46	3	10	1	1	0	7	7	12	1	.217	.321	.283	.603
		NLDS	5	14	11	1	2	0	1	0	1	3	4	0	.182	.357	.364	.721
		NLCS	7	26	23	2	5	1	0	0	5	3	7	0	.217	.308	.261	.569
		World Series	4	14	12	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	.250	.308	.250	.558
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	43	165	147	15	35	7	1	2	19	15	36	2	.238	.305	.340	.645

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, 2024. 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	11	10	2	0	0	3	.200	.273	.300	.261	27.3%
vs RHP	69	61	10	1	8	23	.164	.261	.279	.248	33.3%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2024. 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	4	3	2	0	1	0	.667	.750	.667	.622	0.0%
vs RHB	6	4	1	0	1	0	.250	.500	.250	.390	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2024.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 45 tracked batted balls in 2024. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 6.7%
Exit velocity: 89.7
Max exit velo: 108.4
Hard hit: 33.3%
Sweet spot: 37.8%
Launch angle: 13.5°

Barrel rate6.7%

Exit velocity89.7 mph

Hard hit rate33.3%

Contact rate64.6%

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, 2024.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Brandon Crawford 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	80	—	—	—	—	—	—	.169	.263	.282	.250
Bases empty	47	42	8	1	1	5	15	.190	.277	.333	.274
Runner on first · thin	15	11	1	0	0	3	4	.091	.333	.091	.251
Runners on	33	29	4	0	3	3	11	.138	.242	.207	.216
RISP · thin	18	18	3	0	3	0	7	.167	.167	.278	.187

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, 2024.

Pitch sequencing

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

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Four-seam

Select a count to see exactly what Brandon Crawford throws in it.

Pitch arsenal

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

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	91.4%	32	86.6	1,924	21.9%	0.0%	7	—	—

Brandon Crawford'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.