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Victor Scott II

St. Louis CardinalsNational League CentralCF
Age
25
B/T
L/L
Height
5' 10"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#11
Born
February 12, 2001 in Atlanta, GA, United States
MLB debut
March 28, 2024
Drafted
2022, round 5
College
West Virginia
High school
McEachern

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dbWAR
.1
Regular season, 3 season(s)
PA
195
AVG
.193
OBP
.270
SLG
.253
wRC+
51
100 = avg

Victor Scott II is a center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 9 RBIs, notching 32 hits across 195 plate appearances in 68 games. His batting average was .193, 21.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .270 clip and slugged .253, for an OPS of .523, 27.2% lower than the league mark of .719 — the worst on his team, and 453rd of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 78.9 mph off the bat, hit 24.2% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 1.6% of them and made contact on 75.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 51 wRC+ puts his offence 49% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -11.8 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, +0.1 on the bases, -0.3 on double plays, +1.3 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+51
wOBA.245
ISO.060
BB%8.2%
WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to -4.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

Batting-11.8Ballpark+0.4Baserunning+0.1Double plays-0.3Position+1.3Replacement+6.0
BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.90.2-0.4242526

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

Trend
2026STL681953229121646.193.270.253.060.2528.2%23.6%.245-11.851-0.4
2025STL132463865373442111.216.305.296.080.2849.1%24.0%.277-14.5750.9
2024STL46155262105642.179.219.283.103.2333.9%27.1%.221-11.637-0.4

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP6457151211.263.295.316.27417.2%
vs RHP1311091711435.156.258.220.23126.7%

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 128 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
1.6%
2 barrels
Exit velocity
78.9
mph average
Max exit velo
106.3
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
24.2%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
32.0%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
5.1°
average
Barrel rate1.6%
Exit velocity78.9 mph
Hard hit rate24.2%
Contact rate75.4%

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.

——.083.000—7 AB.25016 AB.30010 AB.29417 AB.15426 AB.31822 AB.15413 AB.15020 AB.1119 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Victor Scott II 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations195——————.193.270.253.245
Bases empty11210124221029.238.313.327.293
Runner on first363040017.133.188.167.169
Runners on8365807617.123.205.138.173
RISP4735407510.114.220.114.175

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.