MLB / Players

Adam Wainwright

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 7 in · 230 lb

BornAugust 30, 1981 · Brunswick, GA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 2005

Seasons18 (2005–2023)

St. Louis Cardinals 2005–2010; St. Louis Cardinals 2012–2023

Percentile snapshot

2022 season — qualified pitchers

54.5

27.3

11.4

SHO

192

9.1

20.5

18.2

143

18.2

68.2

191.7

72.7

ERA

3.71

29.5

WHIP

1.283

15.9

K/9

6.71

6.8

FIP

3.72

36.4

FIP-

94.1

38.6

ERA+

106.6

29.5

sWAR

2.5

31.8

of 45 qualified 2022 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.0

80.4

sWAR

45.9

98.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2005	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
2006	61	6	6	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.167	1.667	331.1	312.7	.692	2.0
2007	37	74	62	4	18	3	0	1	6	3	18	1	.290	.323	.387	.710	85.7	85.4	.317	4.0
2008	25	65	60	5	16	2	0	1	6	2	20	1	.267	.286	.350	.636	64.0	68.4	.283	3.3
2009	40	96	89	7	16	5	1	2	4	1	26	0	.180	.189	.326	.515	23.3	34.6	.223	6.6
2010	37	96	84	4	14	5	0	0	6	7	23	0	.167	.231	.226	.457	23.5	26.2	.217	6.6
2012	33	72	66	5	8	2	0	1	4	3	32	0	.121	.159	.197	.356	-13.2	-2.2	.163	1.8
2013	35	81	71	4	15	4	0	0	6	0	23	0	.211	.208	.268	.476	17.4	31.7	.209	5.0
2014	32	82	72	4	13	3	0	0	6	3	22	0	.181	.213	.222	.436	13.5	23.6	.201	6.0
2015	7	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.8	-100.0	.000	0.9
2016	34	69	62	6	13	7	1	2	18	2	17	0	.210	.234	.452	.686	75.6	80.1	.290	1.3
2017	26	50	42	7	11	2	0	2	11	1	15	0	.262	.279	.452	.731	87.8	90.2	.311	0.5
2018	8	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	6	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-67.7	-49.5	.081	0.1
2019	31	59	50	6	8	3	0	0	2	2	20	0	.160	.189	.220	.409	0.6	7.6	.179	2.1
2020	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
2021	34	74	57	1	7	2	0	0	4	3	25	0	.123	.167	.158	.325	-14.1	-9.5	.152	4.4
2022	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
2023	23	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.7	-100.0	.000	-2.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2005	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	1	0	1	2.0	13.50	1.500	0.00	10.99	263.5	30.9	-0.2
2006	61	0	2	1	3	0	0	64	26	22	72	6	75.0	3.12	1.147	8.64	3.27	73.8	142.0	2.0
2007	32	32	14	12	0	1	0	212	83	70	136	13	202.0	3.70	1.396	6.06	3.84	88.6	117.2	4.0
2008	20	20	11	3	0	1	0	122	47	34	91	12	132.0	3.20	1.182	6.20	3.75	89.4	130.9	3.3
2009	34	34	19	8	0	1	0	216	68	66	212	17	233.0	2.63	1.210	8.19	3.07	75.1	155.9	6.6
2010	33	33	20	11	0	5	2	186	62	56	213	15	230.3	2.42	1.051	8.32	2.88	73.8	161.3	6.6
2012	32	32	14	13	0	3	2	196	87	52	184	15	198.7	3.94	1.248	8.34	3.14	81.7	97.6	1.8
2013	34	34	19	9	0	5	2	223	79	35	219	15	241.7	2.94	1.068	8.16	2.52	67.9	126.3	5.0
2014	32	32	20	9	0	5	3	184	60	50	179	10	227.0	2.38	1.031	7.10	2.85	78.8	152.2	6.0
2015	7	4	2	1	0	0	0	25	5	4	20	0	28.0	1.61	1.036	6.43	2.16	55.7	241.5	0.9
2016	33	33	13	9	0	1	1	220	102	59	161	22	198.7	4.62	1.404	7.29	3.97	98.3	87.4	1.3
2017	24	23	12	5	0	0	0	140	70	45	96	14	123.3	5.11	1.500	7.01	4.31	102.6	82.2	0.5
2018	8	8	2	4	0	0	0	41	20	18	40	5	40.3	4.46	1.463	8.93	4.24	108.8	87.3	0.1
2019	31	31	14	10	0	0	0	181	80	64	153	22	171.7	4.19	1.427	8.02	4.31	100.4	102.5	2.1
2020	10	10	5	3	0	2	0	54	23	15	54	9	65.7	3.15	1.051	7.40	4.13	96.0	136.6	1.5
2021	32	32	17	7	0	3	1	168	70	50	174	21	206.3	3.05	1.057	7.59	3.62	89.8	132.1	4.4
2022	32	32	11	12	0	1	0	192	79	54	143	16	191.7	3.71	1.283	6.71	3.72	94.1	106.6	2.5
2023	21	21	5	11	0	0	0	151	83	41	55	20	101.0	7.40	1.901	4.90	5.99	137.3	59.0	-2.5

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

508

848

744

143

RBI

250

.1922

OBP

.2196

SLG

.2903

OPS

.5099

Pitching

G (P)

478

411

123rd-most career GS

200

118th-most career W

128

286th-most career L

SHO

2,668

211th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,202

67th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

736

330th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.531

472nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2416

298th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.43

151st-highest career K/9

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
2016-05-02	PHI @ STL Gameday	2	1	2	1	1	3	6
2017-04-21	STL @ MIL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	4	5
2008-04-16	MIL @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	5
2013-09-18	STL @ COL Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	2	4
2009-09-26	STL @ COL Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2009-07-01	SF @ STL Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	3	12	0
2012-08-21	HOU @ STL Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	12	0
2013-04-13	MIL @ STL Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	12	0
2014-05-25	STL @ CIN Gameday	8.0	5	0	0	1	12	0
2010-05-25	STL @ SD Gameday	7.0	4	1	1	1	12	1

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

2× Gold Glove1× Silver Slugger3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.