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CF · 2026

Victor Scott II

Age
25
B/T
L/L
Height
5' 10"
Weight
190 lb
Number
#11
Born
February 12, 2001 in Atlanta, GA, USA
MLB debut
March 28, 2024
Drafted
2022, round 5
College
West Virginia
High school
McEachern
dbWAR
-.3
3 season(s)
PA
184
AVG
.194
OBP
.276
SLG
.258
wRC+
54
100 = avg

Victor Scott II is a center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2026 he hit 2 home runs and knocked in 9 RBIs, notching 30 hits across 184 plate appearances in 58 games. His batting average was .194, 20.6% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .276 clip and slugged .258, for an OPS of .534, 25.8% lower than the league mark of .719 — the worst on his team, and 405th of 417 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 78.3 mph off the bat, hit 24.4% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 0.8% of them and made contact on 75.1% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 54 wRC+ puts his offence 46% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -10.4 runs with the bat, -0.1 on the bases, +0.8 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+54
wOBA.250
ISO.065
BB%8.7%
WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2026. These four terms sum to -3.6 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

Batting-10.4Baserunning-0.1Position+0.8Replacement+6.1
BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

0.70.1-0.6242526

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.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHP595215129.288.321.346.29815.3%
vs RHP1251031511435.146.254.214.22728.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2026.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 119 tracked batted balls in 2026. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate
0.8%
1 barrels
Exit velocity
78.3
mph average
Max exit velo
105.4
mph, hardest hit
Hard hit
24.4%
95 mph or better
Sweet spot
31.9%
8–32° launch
Launch angle
5.2°
average
Barrel rate0.8%
Exit velocity78.3 mph
Hard hit rate24.4%
Contact rate75.1%

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, 2026.

.083.0006 AB.20015 AB.30010 AB.28614 AB.18222 AB.31822 AB.15413 AB.15020 AB.1258 AB
Below averageLeague averageAbove average
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 Victor Scott II 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.
SituationPAABHHRRBIBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBA
All situations184.194.276.258.250
Bases empty1079622221028.229.308.323.289
Runner on first322640017.154.214.192.193
Runners on7759807616.136.224.153.188
RISP453340759.121.231.121.184

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2026.

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
202658184302991644.194.276.258.065.2558.7%23.9%.250-10.454-0.4
2025132463865373442111.216.305.296.080.2849.1%24.0%.277-14.5750.7
202446155262105642.179.219.283.103.2333.9%27.1%.221-11.637-0.6

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Nearest 2026 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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.