P · 2021

Daniel Ponce de Leon

St. Louis Cardinals National League CentralP

Age: 29
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 200 lb

Born: January 16, 1992 in Anaheim, CA, USA
MLB debut: July 23, 2018

dbWAR: -.1
PA: 5
AVG: .000
OBP: .000
SLG: .000
wRC+: -127

Daniel Ponce de Leon is a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2021 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 5 plate appearances in 4 games. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .244. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .728. He made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -127 wRC+ puts his offence 227% below average. That comes to -0.1 dbWAR — -1.3 runs with the bat, +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.

wRC+-127

wOBA.000

ISO.000

BB%0.0%

WAR-.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2021. These four terms sum to -1.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	4	5	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-1.3	-127	-0.1
2019	8	12	0	0	1	4	.000	.100	.000	.000	.000	8.3%	33.3%	.071	-2.6	-73	-0.2
2018	7	10	1	1	0	4	.111	.111	.333	.222	.200	0.0%	40.0%	.191	-1.0	12	-0.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2021	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	9	8	32.2	1	3	0	23	18	45	20	4.96	5.64	1.32	12.4	5.5	111	127	-0.1
2019	13	8	48.2	1	2	0	36	20	52	26	3.70	4.41	1.27	9.6	4.8	82	98	0.4
2018	11	4	33.0	0	2	1	24	10	31	13	2.73	3.34	1.12	8.5	3.5	66	81	0.5

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

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 LHP	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%
vs RHP	3	3	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	100.0%

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	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.

Situational hitting

How Daniel Ponce de Leon 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	5	—	—	—	—	—	—	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bases empty · thin	4	4	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runner on first · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
Runners on · thin	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.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, 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, and how often it misses in 2021.


Four-Seam Fastball	73.2%	481	93.0	2,281	47.4%	24.1%
Changeup	12.2%	80	86.2	1,908	35.0%	9.3%
Cutter	9.9%	65	89.2	2,255	32.3%	23.8%
Curveball	4.1%	27	77.0	2,538	33.3%	16.7%

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.

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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.