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Daniel Ponce de Leon
- Age
- 29
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 3"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Born
- January 16, 1992 in Anaheim, CA, United States
- MLB debut
- July 23, 2018
- dbWAR
- .4 Regular season, 7 season(s)
- IP
- 33.1
- ERA
- 6.21
- FIP
- 6.11
- K/9
- 6.5
- FIP−
- 143 100 = avg
Daniel Ponce de Leon was a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2021 he struck out 24 batters over 33.1 innings across 24 appearances, going 1-1. His ERA of 6.21 was 45.6% higher than the league average of 4.27 — the second worst on his team, and 496th of 567 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.11 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 21.9% of swings (10.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 13.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.2%. His -0.5 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.
League context
Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2021 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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 pitching
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Post | STL | Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 27.00 | 3.00 | 18.0 |
| 2019 Post | STL | NLCS | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4.50 | 1.50 | 18.0 |
| Career | Postseason total · 2 Octobers | 2 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12.00 | 2.00 | 18.0 |
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 left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 71 | 60 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 12 | .267 | .380 | .533 | .393 | 16.9% |
| vs RHB | 88 | 67 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 12 | .239 | .379 | .403 | .347 | 13.6% |
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2021.
Pitch sequencing
What Daniel Ponce de Leon 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, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 481 | 93.0 | 2,281 | 47.4% | 24.1% | 84 | .298 | .989 | |
| Changeup | 80 | 86.2 | 1,908 | 35.0% | 9.3% | 25 | .160 | .472 | |
| Cutter | 65 | 89.2 | 2,255 | 32.3% | 23.8% | 10 | — | — | |
| Curveball | 27 | 77.0 | 2,538 | 33.3% | 16.7% | 7 | — | — |
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Nearest 2021 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
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.