Lane Thomas made his MLB debut this season and played with no intentions of looking back. Thomas posted an fWAR of 0.7 (nearly half of Dexter Fowler’s 1.5 fWAR) in just 44 plate appearances (Fowler had 574). If this number is extrapolated into a full season’s worth of plate appearances (around 600), then Thomas would have posted a 9.5 WAR this season. So basically, the Cardinals have a nine win player ready to go for next season and all of their offensive problems have been solved. We can hope.
Profiling Lane Thomas
