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Rubén Tejada

Age: 30
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 200 lb

Born: October 27, 1989 in Veraguas, Panama
MLB debut: April 7, 2010

dbWAR: 4.3
PA: 9
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -123

Rubén Tejada was a second baseman for the New York Mets. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 9 plate appearances in 5 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 80.4 mph off the bat and made contact on 78.6% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -123 wRC+ puts his offence 223% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -2.5 runs with the bat, +0.0 for the ballpark, +0.0 on the bases, +0.1 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, 2019 regular season.

wRC+-123

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.2

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These terms sum to -2.1 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 — postseason games are listed separately below.


2019	NYM	5	9	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.000	-2.5	-123	-0.2
2017	BAL	36	124	26	0	5	0	8	15	.230	.293	.283	.053	.265	6.5%	12.1%	.262	-6.4	57	-0.3
2016	STL/SF	32	78	11	0	5	0	7	13	.167	.247	.242	.076	.196	9.0%	16.7%	.223	-6.1	34	-0.2
2015	NYM	108	407	94	3	28	2	38	70	.261	.338	.350	.089	.315	9.3%	17.2%	.307	-3.3	96	1.5
2014	NYM	116	419	84	5	34	1	50	73	.237	.342	.310	.073	.283	11.9%	17.4%	.295	-5.8	91	1.1
2013	NYM	57	227	42	0	10	2	15	24	.202	.259	.260	.058	.228	6.6%	10.6%	.240	-13.6	47	-0.4
2012	NYM	114	501	134	1	25	4	27	73	.289	.333	.351	.063	.339	5.4%	14.6%	.307	-4.8	95	1.6
2011	NYM	95	376	93	0	36	5	35	50	.284	.360	.335	.052	.331	9.3%	13.3%	.317	-1.0	100	1.5
2010	NYM	75	255	46	1	15	2	22	38	.213	.305	.282	.069	.250	8.6%	14.9%	.272	-10.8	65	-0.0

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.

																				Trend
2016	STL	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	18.00	29.15	2.00	0.0	0.0	430	696	-0.3	—

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Rubén Tejada's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2015 Post	NYM	NLDS	2	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	.000	.167	.000	.167

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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	5	5	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	40.0%
vs RHP	4	4	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	25.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 6 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 80.4
Max exit velo: 88.7
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 16.7%
Launch angle: 12.8°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity80.4 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate78.6%

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, 2019.

Below averageLeague averageAbove average

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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Rubén Tejada 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	9	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	8	8	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
RISP · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2019.

Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.


Changeup	52.6%	10	86.1	2,166	20.0%	0.0%	2	—	—

Rubén Tejada'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. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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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.