Players · P · C · 2026 regular season
Pedro Pagés
- Age
- 28
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 5' 11"
- Weight
- 245 lb
- Number
- #43
- Born
- September 17, 1998 in Maracay, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- April 7, 2024
- Drafted
- 2019, round 6
- College
- Florida Atlantic
- dbWAR
- 1.1 Regular season, 4 season(s)
- PA
- 211
- AVG
- .217
- OBP
- .275
- SLG
- .312
- wRC+
- 66 100 = avg
Pedro Pagés is a catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 12 RBIs, notching 41 hits across 211 plate appearances in 67 games. His batting average was .217, 11.1% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .275 clip and slugged .312, for an OPS of .588, 18.3% lower than the league mark of .719 — 16th of 19 on his team, and 411th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 85.0 mph off the bat, hit 38.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 3.6% of them and made contact on 71.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 66 wRC+ puts his offence 34% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -9.2 runs with the bat, +0.5 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, -1.1 on double plays, +3.7 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, 2026 regular season.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +0.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.
WAR by season
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.
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| 2026 | STL | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | 9.60 | 1.00 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 108 | 230 | -0.1 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 95 | 88 | 18 | 0 | 7 | 28 | .205 | .263 | .239 | .234 | 29.5% |
| vs RHP | 116 | 101 | 23 | 4 | 7 | 28 | .228 | .286 | .376 | .292 | 24.1% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .833 | .486 | 0.0% |
| vs RHB | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
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 137 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 3.6% 5 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.0 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 108.9 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 38.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 33.6% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 13.1° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Pedro Pagés hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 211 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .217 | .275 | .312 | .265 |
| Bases empty | 119 | 110 | 26 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 33 | .236 | .288 | .336 | .281 |
| Runner on first | 42 | 38 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | .211 | .268 | .289 | .255 |
| Runners on | 92 | 79 | 15 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 23 | .190 | .258 | .278 | .245 |
| RISP | 50 | 41 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 12 | .171 | .250 | .268 | .237 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.
Pitch sequencing
What Pedro Pagés 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.
| Slider | 11 | 49.8 | 1,295 | 36.4% | 0.0% | 5 | — | — |
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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.