STATS OVERVIEW
Season
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G
Games
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PA
Plate Appearances
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WARP
Wins Above Replacement Player
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DRC+
Deserved Runs Created plus
- Measures batter contributions, not just results. 100 is average. Higher is better, lower is worse.
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SD±
DRC+ Standard Deviation
- Our measure of uncertainty surrounding a player’s DRC+
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DRAA
Deserved Runs Above Average
- DRC+ converted to runs
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BRR
Base Running Runs
- Measures the number of runs contributed by a player's advancement on the bases -- opportunity and park adjusted
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DRP
Deserved Runs Prevented
- Total summary of all fielding contributions
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| Career | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Current Season | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
ARTICLES
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2021-01-05 : Chicago Cubs signed free agent 1B Patrick Wisdom to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
2021-01-05 : Chicago Cubs signed free agent 1B Patrick Wisdom to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
2020-10-07 : 1B Patrick Wisdom elected free agency.
2020-09-30 : Chicago Cubs invited non-roster 1B Patrick Wisdom to spring training.
2020-09-27 : Chicago Cubs designated 1B Patrick Wisdom for assignment.
2020-09-25 : Chicago Cubs selected the contract of 1B Patrick Wisdom from Cubs Alternate Training Site.
2020-08-23 : Chicago Cubs signed free agent 1B Patrick Wisdom to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
2020-08-14 : Seattle Mariners released 1B Patrick Wisdom.
2020-08-10 : Seattle Mariners designated 1B Patrick Wisdom for assignment.
2019-11-27 : Seattle Mariners signed free agent Patrick Wisdom.
2019-11-04 : 1B Patrick Wisdom elected free agency.
2019-07-06 : Texas Rangers designated 1B Patrick Wisdom for assignment.
2019-04-07 : Texas Rangers recalled Patrick Wisdom from Nashville Sounds.
2018-12-11 : Texas Rangers traded 3B Drew Robinson to St. Louis Cardinals for 3B Patrick Wisdom.
2018-08-28 : St. Louis Cardinals recalled 3B Patrick Wisdom from Memphis Redbirds.
2018-08-11 : St. Louis Cardinals selected the contract of Patrick Wisdom from Memphis Redbirds.
2018-02-07 : St. Louis Cardinals invited non-roster 3B Patrick Wisdom to spring training.
2017-02-16 : St. Louis Cardinals invited non-roster 3B Patrick Wisdom to spring training.
2016-01-20 : St. Louis Cardinals invited non-roster 3B Patrick Wisdom to spring training.
2015-03-11 : RHP Patrick Wisdom assigned to St. Louis Cardinals.
2014-01-21 : St. Louis Cardinals invited non-roster 3B Patrick Wisdom to spring training.
2013-03-06 : 3B Patrick Wisdom assigned to St. Louis Cardinals.
2012-06-09 : St. Louis Cardinals signed 3B Patrick Wisdom.
Date On
When the player was placed on IL or injured
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Date Off
When the player was activated from IL or returned
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Transaction
Action taken by team
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Days
Total days missed by player
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Games
Approximate team games missed by player
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Side
The side of the body where the injury occurred
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Body Part
The part of the body where the injury occured
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Injury
A description of the injury
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| 2024-03-25 | 2024-04-18 | 10 day | 24 | - | none | back | Back strain |
| 2023-06-17 | 2023-07-04 | 10 day | 17 | - | right | lower arm | wrist sprain |
| 2022-08-26 | 2022-09-10 | 10 day | 15 | - | left | hand | ring finger sprain |
| 2022-05-08 | 2022-05-09 | DTD | 1 | - | left | lower leg | bruised ankle |
| 2021-09-29 | 2021-10-18 | 10 day | 19 | - | none | internal | COVID-19 Protocol |
| 2021-09-26 | 2021-09-29 | DTD | 3 | - | right | lower arm | wrist injury |
| 2016-06-17 | 2016-08-12 | Minors | 56 | - | Not Known | Not Disclosed | Not Disclosed |
| 2016-03-10 | 2016-03-16 | Camp | 6 | - | Not Known | Hamstring | Tightness |
CONTRACT HISTORY
- 1 year/$2.725M (2024). Re-signed by Chicago Cubs 11/17/23 (avoided arbitration).;1 year/$763,000 (2023). Re-signed by Chicago Cubs 3/23.
- 1 year/$730,000 (2022). Re-signed by Chicago Cubs 3/22.
- 1 year (2021). Signed by Chicago Cubs as a free agent 2/4/21 (minor-league contract). Contract selected by Chicago Cubs 5/25/21.
- 1 year/$600,000 (2020). Signed by Seattle as a free agent 11/19 (split contract paying $150,000 in minors). DFA by Seattle 8/10/20. Released 8/14/20. Signed by Chicago Cubs as a free agent 8/23/20 (minor-league contract). Contract selected by Chicago Cubs 9/26/20. DFA by Chicago Cubs 9/27/20.
- 1 year (2019). Acquired by Texas in trade from St. Louis 12/11/18. Re-signed by Texas 3/19. DFA by Texas 7/6/19. Sent outright to Triple-A 7/10/19.
- 1 year (2018). Contract selected by St. Louis 8/11/18.
- Drafted by St. Louis 2012 (1s-52) (St. Mary's, Calif.). $678,790 signing bonus ($969,700 slot).
COMPENSATION
Year
Contract Year
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Age
Seasonal Age
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Team
Signing Team
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Salary
Salary or other detail
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Service Time
Accured service time
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| 2018 | 26 | SLN | 0 | 0.044 |
| 2019 | 27 | TEX | 0 | - |
| 2020 | 28 | SEA | 0 | - |
| 2021 | 29 | CHN | 0 | - |
| 2022 | 30 | CHN | $730,000 | - |
| 2023 | 31 | CHN | $763,000 | - |
| 2024 | 32 | CHN | $2,725,000 | - |
| Total | $4,218,000 | 0.044 |
BP ANNUAL COMMENTS
Wisdom surfaces in the national consciousness from time to time when he goes on a homer binge like the one he orchestrated in April, socking eight homers in his first 14 games. The holes in his swing are so known and so pronounced, though, that few expected what we were seeing was some new trick from this old dog. The skeptics were proven right when Wisdom went ice cold—he finished the first half hitting .190/.279/.451 with a 39.1% strikeout percentage, even with the hot start baked in—and in the season’s second half he was relegated to a bench role behind Nick Madrigal. The contrast between the two, and the decision to side with Madrigal, says a lot about how the organization views the hot corner moving forward.
Wisdom may not hit righties very well, or have a lot of success at Wrigley Field, and he hit under .200 for the last two months of the season, but last year the 31-year-old utility did hit 25 home runs for the second time. He struggles with off-speed stuff, which he's seen more and more as the years have gone by, and he's most effective against hittable fastballs, but you know. Who isn't. Our new DRP metric judges him as a passable defender at multiple positions, so he should stick around as the Cubs hope to enter a new phase.
As Apple endeavors to make once-necessary items like home buttons and headphone jacks obsolete, so does Wisdom suggest the Three True Outcomes player is a relic, unwieldy as an onboard CD drive. Why have three where two will do? It’s a calculation that only works if the player in question is possessed with Wisdom’s Ruthian power. His gaudy home run totals balance out the equally gaudy-but-in-the-bad-way strikeout rate, and there’s a real question as to whether he’ll ever see a fastball in the zone again, as he whiffs over half the time on off-speed along and has a propensity for chasing high heat. Wisdom believers point to former teammate Kyle Schwarber, who also had to learn to cut down on his whiffs, but it’s likely Wisdom's strike zone approach is, to borrow another bygone tech term, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). That means he’ll have to keep hitting the perfectly optimized snot out of the ball every time he can make contact, a line that demands more delicate balance than placing your iPhone on an airplane sink.