National League Central · 2017
St. Louis Cardinals
- Team WAR
- 37.7 21.0 bat / 16.7 pitch
- Win %
- .512 pyth .535
- Run diff
- +56 4.70 / 4.35 per g
- wRC+
- 106
- ERA
- 3.98 FIP 4.04
- Home runs
- 195
The St. Louis Cardinals went 83-79 in 2017, a .512 winning percentage — 12th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 761 runs and allowed 705, a run differential of +56. The offence ranked 13th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 3.98 staff ERA was 8th of 30. Their 106 team wRC+ was 6% above league average — 5th of 30 in MLB. Tommy Pham led the position players at 4.8 WAR, and Carlos Martinez the rotation at a 3.64 ERA.
Where the offence comes from
Roster contribution by share of the team total.
1,388 team hits
Batting
37 players, ranked by dbWAR.
| Tommy Pham | LF | 128 | 530 | 136 | 23 | 73 | 25 | .306 | .411 | .520 | .403 | 158 | 4.8 |
| Dexter Fowler | CF | 118 | 491 | 111 | 18 | 64 | 7 | .264 | .363 | .488 | .363 | 130 | 3.2 |
| Paul DeJong | SS | 108 | 443 | 119 | 25 | 65 | 1 | .285 | .325 | .532 | .362 | 130 | 3.2 |
| Matt Carpenter | 1B | 144 | 622 | 120 | 23 | 69 | 2 | .241 | .384 | .451 | .366 | 133 | 3.0 |
| Yadier Molina | C | 136 | 543 | 137 | 18 | 82 | 9 | .273 | .312 | .439 | .318 | 99 | 2.5 |
| Jedd Gyorko | 3B | 125 | 481 | 116 | 20 | 67 | 6 | .272 | .341 | .472 | .348 | 120 | 2.5 |
| Kolten Wong | 2B | 103 | 410 | 101 | 4 | 42 | 8 | .285 | .376 | .412 | .340 | 114 | 2.1 |
| José A. Martínez | 1B | 105 | 307 | 84 | 14 | 46 | 4 | .309 | .379 | .518 | .383 | 144 | 1.9 |
| Greg Garcia | 3B | 126 | 290 | 61 | 2 | 20 | 2 | .253 | .365 | .332 | .320 | 100 | 0.8 |
| Randal Grichuk | LF | 121 | 442 | 98 | 22 | 59 | 6 | .238 | .285 | .473 | .319 | 100 | 0.8 |
| Aledmys Díaz | SS | 77 | 301 | 74 | 7 | 20 | 4 | .259 | .290 | .392 | .294 | 81 | 0.6 |
| Stephen Piscotty | RF | 106 | 401 | 80 | 9 | 39 | 3 | .235 | .342 | .367 | .316 | 98 | 0.3 |
| Adam Wainwright | P | 24 | 50 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 0 | .262 | .279 | .452 | .311 | 94 | 0.1 |
| Luke Voit | 1B | 59 | 124 | 28 | 4 | 18 | 0 | .246 | .306 | .430 | .320 | 100 | 0.1 |
| Marco Gonzales | P | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .437 | 183 | 0.0 |
| Chad Huffman | PH | 12 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .333 | .429 | .330 | 107 | 0.0 |
| Magneuris Sierra | CF | 19 | 64 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 2 | .317 | .359 | .317 | .304 | 89 | 0.0 |
| Tyler Lyons | P | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .355 | 125 | 0.0 |
| Matt Bowman | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| Brett Cecil | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126 | -0.0 |
| Juan Nicasio | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126 | -0.0 |
| Miguel Socolovich | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126 | -0.0 |
| John Brebbia | P | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126 | -0.0 |
| Harrison Bader | CF | 30 | 92 | 20 | 3 | 10 | 2 | .235 | .283 | .376 | .281 | 73 | -0.0 |
| John Gant | P | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126 | -0.1 |
| Alberto Rosario | PH | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126 | -0.1 |
| Breyvic Valera | 2B | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .182 | .100 | .144 | -24 | -0.1 |
| Jack Flaherty | P | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126 | -0.1 |
| Eric Fryer | C | 33 | 83 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .155 | .277 | .197 | .233 | 39 | -0.2 |
| Luke Weaver | P | 10 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .158 | .200 | .158 | .167 | -8 | -0.2 |
| Carson Kelly | C | 34 | 75 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .174 | .240 | .217 | .213 | 24 | -0.3 |
| Jhonny Peralta | 3B | 21 | 58 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .204 | .259 | .204 | .215 | 26 | -0.3 |
| Mike Leake | P | 26 | 55 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .170 | .220 | .191 | .190 | 9 | -0.4 |
| Carlos Martinez | P | 29 | 69 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | .177 | .203 | .226 | .191 | 9 | -0.5 |
| Alex D. Mejia | 3B | 24 | 49 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .109 | .146 | .174 | .144 | -24 | -0.5 |
| Lance Lynn | P | 30 | 61 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .074 | .107 | .111 | .102 | -54 | -0.9 |
| Michael Wacha | P | 28 | 55 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .043 | .063 | .043 | .051 | -90 | -1.0 |
Pitching
23 pitchers, ranked by dbWAR.
| Carlos Martinez | 32 | 32 | 205.0 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 217 | 3.64 | 3.91 | 1.22 | 9.5 | 3.0 |
| Michael Wacha | 30 | 30 | 165.2 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 158 | 4.13 | 3.63 | 1.36 | 8.6 | 2.9 |
| Mike Leake | 31 | 31 | 186.0 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 130 | 3.92 | 3.90 | 1.28 | 6.3 | 2.7 |
| Trevor Rosenthal | 50 | 0 | 47.2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 76 | 3.40 | 2.17 | 1.20 | 14.3 | 1.4 |
| Luke Weaver | 13 | 10 | 60.1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 72 | 3.88 | 3.17 | 1.26 | 10.7 | 1.3 |
| Adam Wainwright | 24 | 23 | 123.1 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 96 | 5.11 | 4.29 | 1.50 | 7.0 | 1.3 |
| Tyler Lyons | 50 | 0 | 54.0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 68 | 2.83 | 2.86 | 1.09 | 11.3 | 1.1 |
| Brett Cecil | 73 | 0 | 67.1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 66 | 3.88 | 3.26 | 1.23 | 8.8 | 1.1 |
| Lance Lynn | 33 | 33 | 186.1 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 153 | 3.43 | 4.82 | 1.23 | 7.4 | 0.9 |
| Matt Bowman | 75 | 0 | 58.2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 46 | 3.99 | 3.65 | 1.19 | 7.1 | 0.7 |
| Sam Tuivailala | 37 | 0 | 42.1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 2.55 | 3.70 | 1.09 | 7.2 | 0.5 |
| John Brebbia | 50 | 0 | 51.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 2.44 | 4.13 | 0.93 | 8.9 | 0.4 |
| Seunghwan Oh | 62 | 0 | 59.1 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 54 | 4.10 | 4.44 | 1.40 | 8.2 | 0.2 |
| Kevin Siegrist | 46 | 0 | 39.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 43 | 4.81 | 4.38 | 1.55 | 9.8 | 0.2 |
| Ryan Sherriff | 13 | 0 | 14.1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 3.14 | 3.93 | 1.19 | 9.4 | 0.1 |
| Jonathan Broxton | 20 | 0 | 15.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 6.89 | 4.88 | 2.17 | 9.2 | -0.0 |
| Jack Flaherty | 6 | 5 | 21.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 6.33 | 5.27 | 1.55 | 8.4 | -0.0 |
| Zach Duke | 27 | 0 | 18.1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3.93 | 5.28 | 1.04 | 5.9 | -0.1 |
| Sandy Alcantara | 8 | 0 | 8.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4.32 | 6.04 | 1.80 | 10.8 | -0.1 |
| Miguel Socolovich | 15 | 0 | 18.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 8.68 | 5.41 | 1.66 | 6.8 | -0.1 |
| Josh Lucas | 5 | 0 | 7.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3.68 | 6.84 | 1.50 | 8.6 | -0.2 |
| Mike Mayers | 3 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11.57 | 10.01 | 2.57 | 5.8 | -0.3 |
| John Gant | 7 | 2 | 17.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4.67 | 6.79 | 1.56 | 5.7 | -0.3 |
Record versus run differential
St. Louis Cardinals are 83-79, a .512 win rate, while their +56 run differential implies .535. That is about 4 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.