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Thomas Saggese

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralSS

Age: 24
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 185 lb
Number: #25

Born: April 10, 2002 in Carlsbad, CA, United States
MLB debut: September 10, 2024
Drafted: 2020, round 5
High school: Carlsbad

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dbWAR: .7
PA: 180
AVG: .235
OBP: .294
SLG: .352
wRC+: 82

Thomas Saggese is a shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2026 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 14 RBIs, notching 38 hits across 180 plate appearances in 53 games. His batting average was .235, 3.9% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .294 clip and slugged .352, for an OPS of .646, 10.1% lower than the league mark of .719 — 12th of 19 on his team, and 339th of 465 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 90.7 mph off the bat, hit 43.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 8.7% of them and made contact on 72.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 82 wRC+ puts his offence 18% below average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — -4.4 runs with the bat, +0.4 for the ballpark, -0.3 on the bases, -1.1 on double plays, +1.2 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+82

wOBA.289

ISO.117

BB%7.2%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These terms sum to +1.4 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.


2026	STL	53	180	38	4	14	4	13	49	.235	.294	.352	.117	.304	7.2%	27.2%	.289	-4.4	82	0.1
2025	STL	81	295	71	2	25	3	16	83	.258	.299	.342	.084	.359	5.4%	28.1%	.285	-7.4	81	0.6
2024	STL	14	52	10	1	4	0	2	14	.204	.250	.306	.102	.265	3.8%	26.9%	.248	-2.7	55	-0.0

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	56	47	10	3	8	21	.213	.321	.447	.337	37.5%
vs RHP	124	115	28	1	5	28	.243	.282	.313	.267	22.6%

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

Barrel rate: 8.7%
Exit velocity: 90.7
Max exit velo: 111.0
Hard hit: 43.5%
Sweet spot: 37.4%
Launch angle: 12.6°

Barrel rate8.7%

Exit velocity90.7 mph

Hard hit rate43.5%

Contact rate72.0%

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 Thomas Saggese 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	180	—	—	—	—	—	—	.235	.294	.352	.289
Bases empty	107	97	25	3	4	8	33	.258	.327	.392	.322
Runner on first	42	39	6	1	2	3	8	.154	.214	.231	.206
Runners on	73	65	13	1	10	5	16	.200	.247	.292	.239
RISP	31	26	7	0	8	2	8	.269	.290	.385	.284

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

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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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.