MLB · 2B · St. Louis Cardinals
JJ Wetherholt
B/T L/R · 5' 9" · 190 lb · born Baltimore, MD, USA · age 24 · draft 2024 rd 1 · played 2B 131, SS 12 · MLB debut 2026-03-26
619 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
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Scout’s note
JJ Wetherholt's first full season in St. Louis produced a .242 average and 17 homers, and the engine says he's slightly owed: a 104.4 EV95 with results 0.0518 below what the physics support. Not enough to flag, but enough to notice. The Baltimore-born lefty hitter was a 2024 first-rounder who debuted opening day this year and already has 4.6 WAR through 139 games. He sits 67th on the breakout composite, well outside the board's top 20, and his last two weeks — 6 strikeouts in 5 games, .586 OPS — haven't closed that gap. The bat plays; the question is whether it sharpens.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Current signals
The read: Wetherholt is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 104.4 (30th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.052 below the physics — slightly owed, but not enough to flag. He sits No. 67 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.
OWED — his contact has outrun his line. Where he sits in the league →
- EV95 (mph)
- 104.4
- Luck gap (park-adj)
- -0.0518
- Overlay score
- 0.3957
- Age
- 24
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 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.
- EV95104.430
- Deserved (xVal)0.38861
- Got (aVal)0.31821
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.05294
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 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
- $2.75M
- Tax hit
- $2.75M
- Service time
- 1 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: 8 y/$112.5M (27-34) · agent Covenant Spts · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash | $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
In a few years it appears the Cardinals offense is projected to be JJ Wetherholt, two guys named J. Baez and a bunch of catchers https://t.co/nxwLCWHnrN
Umpire favor
+7.5 net runs over 73 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | St. Louis Cardinals | MLB | 139 | 537 | 89 | 130 | 17 | 51 | 14 | 64 | 104 | .242 | .704 |
| MLB CAREER | 139 | 537 | 89 | 130 | 17 | 51 | 14 | 64 | 104 | .242 | .704 | ||
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