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Kevin Mench

Washington Nationals National League EastPH

Age: 32
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 215 lb
Number: #28

Born: January 7, 1978 in Wilmington, DE, United States
MLB debut: April 9, 2002

dbWAR: 2.1
PA: 29
AVG: .111
OBP: .172
SLG: .111
wRC+: -27

Kevin Mench was a position player for the Washington Nationals. In 2010 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 1 RBI, notching 3 hits across 29 plate appearances in 27 games. His batting average was .111, 56.8% lower than the league average of .257. He reached base at a .172 clip and slugged .111, for an OPS of .284, 61.1% lower than the league mark of .728. He made contact on 76.9% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -27 wRC+ puts his offence 127% below average. That comes to -0.4 dbWAR — -4.2 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, -0.0 on the bases, -0.6 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2010 regular season.

wRC+-27

wOBA.142

ISO.000

BB%6.9%

WAR-.4

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2010. These terms sum to -4.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only. Seasons on file run 2005–2010; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2010	WSH	27	29	3	0	1	0	2	6	.111	.172	.111	.000	.143	6.9%	20.7%	.142	-4.2	-27	-0.4
2008	TOR	47	131	28	0	10	2	14	18	.243	.321	.357	.113	.283	10.7%	13.7%	.302	-3.4	80	-0.1
2007	MIL	97	308	77	8	37	3	16	21	.267	.305	.441	.174	.263	5.2%	6.8%	.324	-2.9	92	0.4
2006	TEX/MIL	126	482	120	13	68	1	27	59	.269	.313	.419	.150	.282	5.6%	12.2%	.317	-8.0	85	0.2
2005	TEX	149	615	147	25	73	4	50	68	.264	.328	.469	.205	.261	8.1%	11.1%	.347	+8.6	109	2.1

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2010. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	10	9	1	0	1	0	.111	.200	.111	.162	0.0%
vs RHP	19	18	2	0	1	6	.111	.158	.111	.132	31.6%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2010.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2010.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .257.

Situational hitting

How Kevin Mench hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	29	—	—	—	—	—	—	.111	.172	.111	.142
Bases empty · thin	14	14	2	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.128
Runner on first · thin	4	3	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.180
Runners on · thin	15	13	1	0	1	2	4	.077	.200	.077	.156
RISP · thin	11	10	1	0	1	1	2	.100	.182	.100	.147

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2010.

Not in the 2010 data: exit velocity and launch angle, first recorded in 2015. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.

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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.