DH · 2026

Iván Herrera

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralDH

Age: 26
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #48

Born: June 1, 2000 in Panama City, Panama
MLB debut: May 24, 2022

dbWAR: 6.8
PA: 521
AVG: .250
OBP: .361
SLG: .391
wRC+: 118

Iván Herrera is a designated hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2026 he hit 13 home runs and knocked in 50 RBIs, notching 110 hits across 521 plate appearances in 117 games. His batting average was .250, 2.6% higher than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .361 clip and slugged .391, for an OPS of .752, 4.5% higher than the league mark of .719 — the third best on his team, and 130th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.4 mph off the bat, hit 41.1% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 79.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 118 wRC+ puts his offence 18% above average. That comes to 2.1 dbWAR — +8.9 runs with the bat, +0.6 on the bases, -5.5 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.

wRC+118

wOBA.339

ISO.141

BB%10.2%

WAR2.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to +21.3 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

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	159	130	34	5	25	22	.262	.396	.423	.366	13.8%
vs RHP	362	310	76	8	28	69	.245	.345	.377	.328	19.1%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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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.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	117	521	110	13	50	7	53	91	.250	.361	.391	.141	.286	10.2%	17.5%	.339	+8.9	118	2.1
2025	107	452	110	19	66	8	43	84	.284	.373	.464	.180	.315	9.5%	18.6%	.367	+19.5	140	2.5
2024	71	259	69	5	27	5	25	53	.301	.372	.428	.127	.370	9.7%	20.5%	.354	+8.8	131	2.2

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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.