2B · 2019
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
- .6 5 season(s)
- PA
- 9
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -123 100 = avg
Rubén Tejada is 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 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.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -2.1 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .000 | -2.5 | -123 | -0.2 | |
| 2017 | 36 | 124 | 26 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 15 | .230 | .293 | .283 | .053 | .265 | 6.5% | 12.1% | .262 | -6.4 | 57 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 32 | 78 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 13 | .167 | .247 | .242 | .076 | .196 | 9.0% | 16.7% | .223 | -6.1 | 34 | -0.3 | |
| 2015 | 108 | 407 | 94 | 3 | 28 | 2 | 38 | 70 | .261 | .338 | .350 | .089 | .315 | 9.3% | 17.2% | .307 | -3.3 | 96 | 1.5 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 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 | — |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| 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% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 80.4 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 88.7 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 16.7% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 12.8° average
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.
Situational hitting
How Rubén Tejada hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| 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.
Head to head
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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.