Head to head · 2025 batting

Jason Heyward vs MJ Melendez

In 2025 Jason Heyward has been worth 0.3 more wins. Both lines are computed from play-by-play on the same constants, so they are measured the same way rather than quoted from two sources.

Jason Heyward SD

MJ Melendez KC

2025 batting. The stronger figure in each row is highlighted — for strikeout rate that is the lower one.
Statistic	Jason Heyward	MJ Melendez
G	31	20
PA	95	65
H	15	5
HR	2	1
RBI	12	1
SB	0	0
AVG	.176	.083
OBP	.223	.154
SLG	.271	.167
OPS	.494	.321
ISO	.094	.083
BB%	6.3%	4.6%
K%	21.1%	35.4%
wOBA	.219	.153
wRC+	33	-14
WAR	-0.5	-0.8

Career

Totalled over the seasons published here, which is not the same as a whole career: a player who debuted before 2015 begins at 2015, not at his real first game.

Career batting totals. AVG and SLG are recomputed from the components rather than averaged; OBP, wOBA and wRC+ need each season’s own constants and are left to the table above.
Statistic	Jason Heyward	MJ Melendez
G	1,117	485
PA	4,176	1,796
H	931	338
2B	181	80
3B	24	12
HR	102	56
RBI	438	174
BB	391	183
SO	694	487
SB	62	12
AVG	.251	.213
SLG	.395	.385
WAR	10.7	2.5

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season’s own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page. To put these two beside a third, the comparison page takes up to four.