MLB · 2B · St. Louis Cardinals
JJ Wetherholt
B/T L/R · 5' 9" · 190 lb · born Baltimore, MD, USA · age 23 · draft 2024 rd 1 · played 2B 122, SS 10 · MLB debut 2026-03-26
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-27): 13 G · .250 AVG · 1 HR · 3 RBI · .662 OPS
578 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipJJ Wetherholt #BCP-22 · 2025 Bowman Chrome Prospects · 1231 recent sales 7N ▼1.7%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
A Baltimore kid taken in the first round of 2024, Wetherholt hits his hardest at an EV95 of 104.6 — 30th percentile among the 364 bats we track, below the 106.0 median. His results sit 0.041 below the physics, a modest gap: slightly owed, not flagged. He ranks No. 85 on the breakout composite, outside the board's top 20 but in the conversation. At 23, in his debut season, the contact quality says the average should climb; the last two weeks say it hasn't yet.
Current signals
The read: Wetherholt is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 104.5 (30th percentile of the 373 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.051 below the physics — slightly owed, but not enough to flag. He sits No. 73 of 373 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.
OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 104.5
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.0513
- Overlay score
- 0.3955
- Age
- 23
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 373 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95104.530
- Deserved (xVal)0.39162
- Got (aVal)0.32221
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.05192
today · 30 days ago, against the 330 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Under contractA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.78M
- Tax hit
- $0.78M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $113M
The deal 8 years $112.5M (2027–2034) — $14.1M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 1 y/$780,000 (26) 8 y/$112.5 (27-34) · agent Covenant Spts · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $2.8M | $4.3M | $7.8M | $12.8M |
| Tax hit | $14.1M | $14.1M | $14.1M | $14.1M |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, St. Louis Cardinals.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 | 2033 | 2034 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | $2.5M | $4.0M | $7.5M | $12.5M | $17.0M | $20.0M | $22.0M | $25.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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The Bureau on JJ Wetherholt
The scouting press, in their own words
Joshua Báez has rare power and took the first big league pitch he saw nearly 450 feet to dead center. He’s going to be a a real problem. With JJ Wetherholt, Jordan Walker, Alec Burleson and Iván Herrera already, Cardinals have the makings of something good https://t.co/ZAHa5AaCwa
FYI: This has been updated to put JJ Wetherholt as the Cardinals pick, rather than Zac Gallen who appeared on last year's edition. It may be early in Wetherholt's career, but I feel comfortable giving him the nod given what we've seen. https://t.co/XeEgT65Qlz
Umpire favor
+3.1 net runs over 61 graded games — the zone was kind to him on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | St. Louis Cardinals | MLB | 128 | 497 | 88 | 122 | 17 | 48 | 14 | 63 | 93 | .245 | .724 |
| MLB CAREER | 128 | 497 | 88 | 122 | 17 | 48 | 14 | 63 | 93 | .245 | .724 | ||
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