2B · 2025

Garrett Hampson

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central2B

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 196 lb
Number: #53

Born: October 10, 1994 in Reno, NV, USA
MLB debut: July 21, 2018
Drafted: 2013, round 26
College: Long Beach State
High school: Reno
Salary, 2025: $1.5M

dbWAR: -.8
PA: 91
AVG: .143
OBP: .250
SLG: .169
wRC+: 26

Garrett Hampson is a second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2025 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 11 hits across 91 plate appearances in 46 games. His batting average was .143, 41.7% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .250 clip and slugged .169, for an OPS of .419, 41.7% lower than the league mark of .719. He averaged 79.6 mph off the bat, hit 19.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 2.0% of them and made contact on 77.5% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 26 wRC+ puts his offence 74% below average. That comes to -0.5 dbWAR — -8.0 runs with the bat, +0.1 on the bases, -0.1 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, 2025.

wRC+26

wOBA.209

ISO.026

BB%12.1%

WAR-.5

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2025. These four terms sum to -5.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2025. 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	40	33	4	0	5	11	.121	.237	.152	.198	27.5%
vs RHP	51	44	7	0	6	18	.159	.260	.182	.218	35.3%

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2025. 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 LHB	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%
vs RHB	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2025.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 51 tracked batted balls in 2025. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 2.0%
Exit velocity: 79.6
Max exit velo: 99.2
Hard hit: 19.6%
Sweet spot: 25.5%
Launch angle: 16.9°

Barrel rate2.0%

Exit velocity79.6 mph

Hard hit rate19.6%

Contact rate77.5%

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, 2025.

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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 .245.

Situational hitting

How Garrett Hampson 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	91	—	—	—	—	—	—	.143	.250	.169	.209
Bases empty	48	42	6	0	0	6	15	.143	.250	.190	.216
Runner on first · thin	24	17	3	0	0	4	6	.176	.333	.176	.264
Runners on	43	35	5	0	1	5	14	.143	.250	.143	.201
RISP · thin	19	18	2	0	1	1	8	.111	.158	.111	.131

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, 2025.

Pitch sequencing

What Garrett Hampson throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2025	46	91	11	0	1	3	11	29	.143	.250	.169	.026	.229	12.1%	31.9%	.209	-8.0	26	-0.5
2024	94	231	49	0	16	7	14	59	.230	.275	.300	.070	.314	6.1%	25.5%	.257	-10.5	59	-0.3

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																			Trend
2025	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	3.14	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	75	0.0
2024	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	6.17	0.00	0.0	0.0	0	151	-0.0

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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.