P · 2021

Mark Melancon

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 215 lb

Born: March 28, 1985 in Wheat Ridge, CO, USA
MLB debut: April 26, 2009

Age shown as of the 2022 season.

dbWAR: 7.1
PA: 1
AVG: —
OBP: —
SLG: —
wRC+: —

Mark Melancon is a pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. He averaged 32.2 mph off the bat and made contact on 66.7% of his swings. That comes to 0.0 dbWAR — +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 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, 2021.

BB%0.0%

WAR.0

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to +0.0 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2021	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	0.0%	—	—	—	0.0	—

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2022	62	56.0	3	10	18	63	29	35	21	4.66	4.20	1.50	5.6	3.4	117	106	0.1
2021	64	64.2	4	3	39	54	16	59	25	2.23	3.36	1.22	8.2	3.5	52	79	1.0
2020	23	22.2	2	1	11	22	7	14	7	2.78	3.72	1.28	5.6	2.8	62	84	0.3
2019	66	67.1	5	2	12	71	27	68	18	3.61	2.86	1.32	9.1	2.4	80	63	1.5
2018	41	39.0	1	4	3	48	14	31	14	3.23	3.39	1.59	7.2	3.2	78	82	0.5
2017	32	30.0	1	2	11	37	15	29	6	4.50	3.22	1.43	8.7	1.8	103	74	0.5
2016	75	71.1	2	2	47	52	13	65	12	1.64	2.42	0.90	8.2	1.5	39	58	1.8
2015	78	76.2	3	2	51	57	19	62	14	2.23	2.82	0.93	7.3	1.6	56	71	1.4

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2021. 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 RHP	1	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	0.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2021. 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 LHB	109	100	15	0	9	24	.150	.220	.190	.184	22.0%
vs RHB	156	137	39	4	16	35	.285	.359	.409	.334	22.4%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2021.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2021. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 32.2
Max exit velo: 32.2
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -34.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity32.2 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate66.7%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2021.

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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 .243.

Situational hitting

How Mark Melancon 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	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Runner on first · thin	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—
Runners on · thin	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—

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, 2021.

Pitch sequencing

What Mark Melancon throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, and how often it misses in 2021.


Cutter	62.6%	659	92.0	2,255	47.5%	14.8%
Knuckle Curve	34.4%	362	82.2	2,600	47.0%	30.6%
Four-Seam Fastball	2.8%	29	92.3	2,286	37.9%	9.1%

Mark Melancon's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters.

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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.