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Nolan Gorman

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central3B

Age: 26
B/T: L/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 225 lb
Number: #16

Born: May 10, 2000 in Phoenix, AZ, United States
MLB debut: May 20, 2022
Drafted: 2018, round 1
High school: O'Connor
Salary, 2026: $2.65M

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dbWAR: 5.1
PA: 302
AVG: .184
OBP: .272
SLG: .308
wRC+: 63

Nolan Gorman is a third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2026 he hit 9 home runs and knocked in 33 RBIs, notching 49 hits across 302 plate appearances in 85 games. His batting average was .184, 24.5% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .272 clip and slugged .308, for an OPS of .580, 19.4% lower than the league mark of .719 — the second worst on his team, and 419th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.3 mph off the bat, hit 42.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.8% of them and made contact on 62.2% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 63 wRC+ puts his offence 37% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -14.1 runs with the bat, +0.7 for the ballpark, -0.8 on the bases, +1.0 on double plays, +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, 2026 regular season.

wRC+63

wOBA.262

ISO.124

BB%10.9%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -3.7 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.


2026	STL	85	302	49	9	33	0	33	98	.184	.272	.308	.124	.247	10.9%	32.5%	.262	-14.1	63	-0.4
2025	STL	108	402	72	14	46	1	47	136	.205	.296	.370	.165	.283	11.7%	33.8%	.294	-6.9	88	0.6
2024	STL	105	402	74	19	50	6	34	151	.203	.271	.400	.197	.279	8.5%	37.6%	.292	-6.7	87	1.1
2023	STL	118	464	96	27	76	7	53	148	.236	.328	.478	.241	.296	11.4%	31.9%	.346	+9.9	115	2.5
2022	STL	88	313	64	14	35	1	28	103	.226	.300	.420	.194	.301	8.9%	32.9%	.318	+1.6	107	1.3

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 Nolan Gorman'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
2022 Post	STL	Wild Card	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000

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, 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 LHP	49	45	8	1	3	15	.178	.224	.267	.221	30.6%
vs RHP	253	221	41	8	30	83	.186	.281	.317	.270	32.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 171 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 8.8%
Exit velocity: 89.3
Max exit velo: 111.9
Hard hit: 42.1%
Sweet spot: 37.4%
Launch angle: 21.8°

Barrel rate8.8%

Exit velocity89.3 mph

Hard hit rate42.1%

Contact rate62.2%

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, 2026.

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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 Nolan Gorman 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	302	—	—	—	—	—	—	.184	.272	.308	.262
Bases empty	172	152	23	5	5	20	63	.151	.250	.276	.245
Runner on first	52	47	11	1	3	5	14	.234	.308	.319	.287
Runners on	130	114	26	4	28	13	35	.228	.300	.351	.285
RISP	78	67	15	3	25	8	21	.224	.295	.373	.283

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

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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.