LF · 2026

Thomas Saggese

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralLF

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

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

dbWAR: .0
PA: 82
AVG: .184
OBP: .244
SLG: .276
wRC+: 45

Thomas Saggese is a left fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2026 he hit 1 home run and knocked in 4 RBIs, notching 14 hits across 82 plate appearances in 28 games. His batting average was .184, 24.4% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .244 clip and slugged .276, for an OPS of .520, 27.7% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 88.9 mph off the bat, hit 38.0% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 67.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 45 wRC+ puts his offence 55% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -5.5 runs with the bat, -0.7 on the bases, -0.2 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.

wRC+45

wOBA.237

ISO.092

BB%7.3%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -3.7 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

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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	28	24	5	1	4	9	.208	.321	.417	.330	32.1%
vs RHP	54	52	9	0	2	17	.173	.204	.212	.189	31.5%

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.

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	82	—	—	—	—	—	—	.184	.244	.276	.237
Bases empty	47	44	10	1	2	3	15	.227	.277	.341	.275
Runner on first · thin	17	15	1	0	0	2	4	.067	.176	.067	.138
Runners on	35	32	4	0	2	3	11	.125	.200	.188	.186
RISP · thin	18	17	3	0	2	1	7	.176	.222	.294	.232

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2026	28	82	14	1	4	1	6	26	.184	.244	.276	.092	.265	7.3%	31.7%	.237	-5.5	45	-0.4
2025	81	295	71	2	25	3	16	83	.258	.299	.342	.084	.359	5.4%	28.1%	.285	-7.4	81	0.5
2024	14	52	10	1	4	0	2	14	.204	.250	.306	.102	.265	3.8%	26.9%	.248	-2.7	55	-0.1

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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.