Michael Wacha

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 6 in · 215 lb

BornJuly 1, 1991 · Iowa City, IA, USA

MLB debutMay 30, 2013

Seasons13 (2013–2025)

St. Louis Cardinals 2013–2019; New York Mets 2020; Tampa Bay Rays 2021; Boston Red Sox 2022; San Diego Padres 2023; Kansas City Royals 2024–2025

Percentile snapshot

2025 season — qualified pitchers

13.7

25.5

23.5

11.8

SHO

166

35.3

54.9

70.6

126

15.7

82.4

172.7

43.1

ERA

3.86

WHIP

1.222

K/9

6.57

11.8

FIP

3.57

70.6

FIP-

87.5

72.5

ERA+

105.9

45.1

sWAR

2.2

45.1

of 52 qualified 2025 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.9

53.2

sWAR

18.5

92.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2013	15	22	21	0	3	0	3	0	10	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-41.6	-19.8	.129	1.3
2014	19	32	29	1	1	0	2	0	18	0	.034	.034	.034	.069	-112.2	-80.4	.031	1.4
2015	30	62	52	5	8	1	4	4	20	1	.154	.214	.173	.387	1.4	8.8	.187	3.0
2016	27	45	39	1	1	0	0	3	22	0	.026	.095	.026	.121	-74.5	-64.6	.073	-0.5
2017	30	55	46	3	2	0	3	1	22	0	.043	.063	.043	.106	-88.6	-70.8	.052	1.5
2018	15	32	25	3	2	0	1	1	9	0	.080	.115	.080	.195	-57.0	-44.6	.097	1.5
2019	29	39	36	3	6	1	3	0	21	0	.167	.167	.194	.361	-15.1	-4.9	.156	0.7
2020	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
2021	30	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-110.2	-100.0	.000	-0.1
2022	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
2023	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
2024	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.9
2025	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2013	15	9	4	1	0	0	52	20	19	65	5	64.7	2.78	1.098	9.05	2.90	78.0	133.5	1.3
2014	19	19	5	6	0	0	95	38	33	94	6	107.0	3.20	1.196	7.91	3.14	86.7	113.3	1.4
2015	30	30	17	7	0	0	162	68	58	153	19	181.3	3.38	1.213	7.59	3.90	100.4	115.0	3.0
2016	27	24	7	7	0	0	159	78	45	114	15	138.0	5.09	1.478	7.43	3.95	97.7	79.4	-0.5
2017	30	30	12	9	1	1	170	76	55	158	17	165.7	4.13	1.358	8.58	3.65	86.9	101.8	1.5
2018	15	15	8	2	0	0	68	30	36	71	9	84.3	3.20	1.233	7.58	4.18	107.2	121.7	1.5
2019	29	24	6	7	0	0	143	67	55	104	26	126.7	4.76	1.563	7.39	5.57	129.6	90.3	0.7
2020	8	7	1	4	0	0	46	25	7	37	9	34.0	6.62	1.559	9.79	5.28	123.1	64.8	-0.5
2021	29	23	3	5	0	0	132	70	31	121	23	124.7	5.05	1.307	8.74	4.51	109.6	81.5	-0.1
2022	23	23	11	2	1	1	111	47	31	104	18	127.3	3.32	1.115	7.35	4.08	98.9	124.2	2.5
2023	24	24	14	4	0	0	113	48	43	124	15	134.3	3.22	1.161	8.31	3.89	93.7	129.2	2.8
2024	29	29	13	8	0	0	154	62	45	145	17	166.7	3.35	1.194	7.83	3.58	89.0	120.1	2.9
2025	31	31	10	13	0	0	166	74	45	126	15	172.7	3.86	1.222	6.57	3.57	87.5	105.9	2.2
2026	30	30	9	9	0	0	158	70	49	149	27	188.7	3.34	1.097	7.11	—	—	—	—

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.

Greyed rows are the current season, sourced from our own game log rather than the archived record book: wRC+, OPS+, wOBA, FIP and sWAR land when the season is archived, and are never approximated before then.

Career totals

Batting

310

290

251

RBI

125

.0916

OBP

.1226

SLG

.0996

OPS

.2222

Pitching

G (P)

309

288

390th-most career GS

111

SHO

1,627

SO (P)

1,416

272nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

503

ERA

3.888

WHIP

1.2745

443rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.83

109th-highest career K/9

Totals run through the last archived season (2025), so the current season in the table above is not in them yet. 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	RBI	TB
2019-05-04	STL @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	1	2	3
2015-07-08	STL @ CHC Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2
2015-05-03	PIT @ STL Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	2
2013-09-08	PIT @ STL Gameday	2	0	1	0	2	1
2014-05-15	CHC @ STL Gameday	2	1	1	0	2	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2023-05-15	KC @ SD Gameday	7.0	1	0	0	1	11	0
2026-08-28	KC @ CLE Gameday	8.0	4	0	0	0	10	0
2015-06-09	STL @ COL Gameday	6.2	9	4	4	1	10	1
2023-04-08	SD @ ATL Gameday	6.0	2	0	0	1	10	0
2014-04-23	STL @ NYM Gameday	4.0	3	2	2	5	10	0

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

1× NLCS MVP1× 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.