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Daniel Ponce de Leon

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central

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
IP: 33.1
ERA: 6.21
FIP: 6.11
K/9: 6.5
FIP−: 143

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.

FIP6.11

K/96.5

WHIP1.62

WAR-.5

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	STL	24	2	33.1	1	1	2	32	23	24	22	6.21	6.11	1.62	6.5	5.9	146	143	-0.5
2020	STL	9	8	32.2	1	3	0	23	18	45	20	4.96	5.64	1.32	12.4	5.5	111	127	-0.0
2019	STL	13	8	48.2	1	2	0	36	20	52	26	3.70	4.41	1.27	9.6	4.8	82	98	0.5
2018	STL	11	4	33.0	0	2	1	24	10	31	13	2.73	3.34	1.12	8.5	3.5	66	81	0.6

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	STL	4	5	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-1.3	-127	-0.1
2019	STL	8	12	0	0	1	4	.000	.100	.000	.000	.000	8.3%	33.3%	.071	-2.6	-73	-0.1
2018	STL	7	10	1	1	0	4	.111	.111	.333	.222	.200	0.0%	40.0%	.191	-1.0	12	0.1

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

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	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.

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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.

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.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	73.2%	481	93.0	2,281	47.4%	24.1%	84	.298	.989
Changeup	12.2%	80	86.2	1,908	35.0%	9.3%	25	.160	.472
Cutter	9.9%	65	89.2	2,255	32.3%	23.8%	10	—	—
Curveball	4.1%	27	77.0	2,538	33.3%	16.7%	7	—	—

Daniel Ponce de Leon'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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Similar players

Nearest 2021 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Travis LakinsBAL

ERA: 5.79
FIP: 5.24
SO: 24
WAR: -0.1

Tyler ZuberKC

ERA: 6.26
FIP: 6.17
SO: 25
WAR: -0.4

Dan WinklerCHC

ERA: 5.22
FIP: 5.74
SO: 40
WAR: -0.4

Yency AlmonteCOL

ERA: 7.55
FIP: 5.73
SO: 47
WAR: -0.4

Comparable

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.