2021 St. Louis Cardinals

90-72 • .556 Win% • 2nd in NL C

The 2021 St. Louis Cardinals went 90-72 (.556) finishing 2nd in the NL C division. The club scored 706 runs, allowed 672, and played home games at Busch Stadium III. Team leaders included Nolan Arenado (34 HR, 105 RBI) and Adam Wainwright (17-7, 3.05 ERA).

W (Wins):
Games credited to a pitcher whose team took a lead it never surrendered while he was the pitcher of record.
L (Losses):
Games charged to the pitcher of record when the opposing team took a lead it never surrendered.
RS (Runs Scored (team)):
Total runs a team scored across the season.
RA (Runs Allowed):
Total runs a team allowed across the season.

Data updated

📊 Season Record

90 Wins
72 Losses
.556 Win %
2nd Rank
706 R 672 RA
Diff +34

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⚡ Quick Stats

706 Runs Scored
672 Runs Allowed
+34 Run Diff
2,102K Attendance

📈 vs. 2021 NL Average

Batting Avg .243 1% above the 2021 league average (.242)
OBP .313 2% below the 2021 league average (.318)
SLG .411 1% above the 2021 league average (.406)
Team ERA 3.98 5% better than the 2021 league average (4.20)
Runs Scored 706 2% below the 2021 league average (722 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumBusch Stadium III
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Home Games 81
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Total Attendance 2,102,530
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Avg per Game 25,957

⚾ Batting Leaders

Team HR Leaders — 2021

Batting Avg

1 Paul Goldschmidt 0.294 2 Tyler O'Neill 0.286 3 Edmundo Sosa 0.271 4 Harrison Bader 0.267 5 Dylan Carlson 0.266

Home Runs

1 Nolan Arenado 34 2 Tyler O'Neill 34 3 Paul Goldschmidt 31 4 Paul DeJong 19 5 Dylan Carlson 18

RBI

1 Nolan Arenado 105 2 Paul Goldschmidt 99 3 Tyler O'Neill 80 4 Yadier Molina 66 5 Dylan Carlson 65
2021 St. Louis Cardinals — RBI
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Tommy Edman 159 641 91 168 41 3 11 56 38 95 30 0.262
Paul Goldschmidt 158 603 102 177 36 2 31 99 67 136 12 0.294
Nolan Arenado 157 593 81 151 34 3 34 105 50 96 2 0.255
Dylan Carlson 149 542 79 144 31 4 18 65 57 152 2 0.266
Tyler O'Neill 138 482 89 138 26 2 34 80 38 168 15 0.286
Yadier Molina 121 440 45 111 19 0 11 66 24 79 3 0.252
Harrison Bader 103 367 45 98 21 1 16 50 27 85 9 0.267
Paul DeJong 113 356 44 70 10 1 19 45 35 103 4 0.197
Edmundo Sosa 113 288 39 78 8 4 6 27 17 63 4 0.271
Matt Carpenter 130 207 18 35 11 1 3 21 35 77 2 0.169
Andrew Knizner 63 161 18 28 7 0 1 9 20 39 0 0.174
Justin Williams 51 119 10 19 0 0 4 11 17 46 0 0.160
Lars Nootbaar 58 109 15 26 3 1 5 15 13 28 2 0.239
Jose Rondon 63 80 13 21 3 0 3 9 8 17 2 0.263
Adam Wainwright 34 57 1 7 2 0 0 4 3 25 0 0.123
Lane Thomas 32 48 2 5 1 0 0 1 10 17 2 0.104
Austin Dean 22 30 5 7 2 0 1 7 6 11 0 0.233
Kwang Hyun Kim 27 26 0 3 1 0 0 2 0 9 0 0.115
Carlos Martinez 16 24 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 15 0 0.083
Jon Lester 12 20 0 3 2 0 0 0 2 11 0 0.150
Johan Oviedo 14 20 3 3 0 0 0 2 2 9 0 0.150
John Nogowski 19 18 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.056
Jake Woodford 26 18 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0.111
Jack Flaherty 17 17 2 2 0 0 1 3 5 7 0 0.118
Max Moroff 6 16 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 10 0 0.062
J. A. Happ 11 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0.000
John Gant 25 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0.000
Wade LeBlanc 12 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
Miles Mikolas 9 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0.000
Scott Hurst 7 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Daniel Ponce de Leon 24 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0.000
Ali Sanchez 2 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.500
Dakota Hudson 2 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0.333
Seth Elledge 11 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Junior Fernandez 18 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Alex Reyes 70 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Brandon Waddell 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Tyler Webb 22 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Genesis Cabrera 71 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Brandon Dickson 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Bernardo Flores 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Giovanny Gallegos 73 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Luis Garcia 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ryan Helsley 51 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Jordan Hicks 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
T. J. McFarland 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Andrew Miller 40 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Justin Miller 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Roel Ramirez 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Angel Rondon 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Kodi Whitley 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

Team K Leaders — 2021

ERA

1 T. J. McFarland 2.56 2 Giovanny Gallegos 3.02 3 Adam Wainwright 3.05 4 Jack Flaherty 3.22 5 Luis Garcia 3.24

Wins

1 Adam Wainwright 17 2 Alex Reyes 10 3 Jack Flaherty 9 4 Kwang Hyun Kim 7 5 Giovanny Gallegos 6

Strikeouts

1 Adam Wainwright 174 2 Giovanny Gallegos 95 3 Alex Reyes 95 4 Jack Flaherty 85 5 Kwang Hyun Kim 80
2021 St. Louis Cardinals — Strikeouts
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Adam Wainwright 17 7 3.05 32 32 0 206.1 168 70 50 174
Kwang Hyun Kim 7 7 3.46 27 21 1 106.2 98 41 39 80
Carlos Martinez 4 9 6.23 16 16 0 82.1 77 57 36 57
Giovanny Gallegos 6 5 3.02 73 0 14 80.1 51 27 20 95
Jack Flaherty 9 2 3.22 17 15 0 78.1 57 28 26 85
John Gant 4 6 3.42 25 14 0 76.1 64 29 56 56
Alex Reyes 10 8 3.24 69 0 29 72.1 46 26 52 95
Genesis Cabrera 4 5 3.73 71 0 0 70.0 52 29 36 77
Jake Woodford 3 4 3.99 26 8 0 67.2 66 30 25 50
Jon Lester 4 1 4.36 12 12 0 66.0 68 32 26 40
Johan Oviedo 0 5 4.91 14 13 0 62.1 61 34 37 51
J. A. Happ 5 2 4.00 11 11 0 54.0 52 24 17 45
Ryan Helsley 6 4 4.56 51 0 1 47.1 40 24 27 47
Miles Mikolas 2 3 4.23 9 9 0 44.2 43 21 11 31
Wade LeBlanc 0 1 3.61 12 8 0 42.1 45 17 16 23
T. J. McFarland 4 1 2.56 38 0 0 38.2 32 11 9 21
Andrew Miller 0 0 4.75 40 0 0 36.0 41 19 16 40
Luis Garcia 1 1 3.24 34 0 2 33.1 25 12 8 34
Daniel Ponce de Leon 1 1 6.21 24 2 2 33.1 32 23 22 24
Kodi Whitley 0 0 2.49 25 0 0 25.1 15 7 12 27
Junior Fernandez 1 0 5.66 18 0 0 20.2 25 13 15 15
Tyler Webb 0 0 13.22 22 0 0 16.1 22 24 19 14
Justin Miller 1 0 4.50 18 0 1 16.0 15 8 5 9
Seth Elledge 0 0 4.63 11 0 0 11.2 13 6 7 11
Jordan Hicks 0 0 5.40 10 0 0 10.0 5 6 10 10
Dakota Hudson 1 0 2.08 2 1 0 8.2 7 2 1 6
Brandon Waddell 0 0 4.15 4 0 0 4.1 4 2 5 6
Brandon Dickson 0 0 13.50 2 0 0 2.0 5 3 0 1
Angel Rondon 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 1
Matt Carpenter 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 1.1 2 0 0 0
Roel Ramirez 0 0 81.00 1 0 0 0.1 1 3 2 0
Bernardo Flores 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0.0 1 1 2 0

🏆 Postseason Results

NL Wild Card
Lost to LAN 1-0

👥 Roster (51)

Nolan Arenado Harrison Bader Genesis Cabrera Dylan Carlson Matt Carpenter Paul DeJong Austin Dean Brandon Dickson Tommy Edman Seth Elledge Junior Fernandez Jack Flaherty +39 more

51 players

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The 2021 St. Louis Cardinals in brief

The 2021 St. Louis Cardinals won 90 games and lost 72, ending up 2nd in the NL Central. This was a year in which the St. Louis Cardinals earned a wild-card berth. Runs came in at 706 scored against 672 allowed (+34). At the plate the St. Louis Cardinals hit .243, 1% better than the league's .242. The St. Louis Cardinals staff finished with a 3.98 ERA; the league as a whole was at 4.20.

Attendance at Busch Stadium III totaled 2,102,530 for the year. Nolan Arenado led the club in home runs with 34. Adam Wainwright led the pitchers with 17 wins. Alex Reyes closed out 29 saves. The NL Wild Card round ended in a loss against LAN 1-0.

Frequently Asked Questions about the 2021 St. Louis Cardinals

What was the 2021 St. Louis Cardinals record?
The 2021 St. Louis Cardinals finished 90-72 (.556 win pct).
Who led the 2021 St. Louis Cardinals in home runs?
Nolan Arenado led the 2021 St. Louis Cardinals with 34 home runs.
What was the 2021 St. Louis Cardinals team ERA?
The 2021 St. Louis Cardinals posted a team ERA of 3.98.
Did the 2021 St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series?
No. The 2021 St. Louis Cardinals did not win the World Series.
Where did the 2021 St. Louis Cardinals play?
The 2021 St. Louis Cardinals played home games at Busch Stadium III.
Who led the 2021 St. Louis Cardinals in hitting and pitching?
Team leaders were Nolan Arenado (34 HR, 105 RBI) and Adam Wainwright (17-7, 3.05 ERA).
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