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Players · M · Pitcher · 2022

Daniel Mengden

Age
29
B/T
R/R
Height
6' 1"
Weight
215 lb
Born
February 19, 1993 in Houston, TX, United States
MLB debut
June 11, 2016
dbWAR
2.2
10 season(s)
IP
7.0
ERA
5.14
FIP
3.11
K/9
10.3
FIP−
78
100 = avg

Daniel Mengden was a relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. In 2022 he struck out 8 batters over 7.0 innings across 5 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 5.14 was 29.6% higher than the league average of 3.97. Stripping out defence, his 3.11 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 21.7% of swings (10.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 3.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 25.0%. His 0.1 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, 2022.

FIP3.11
K/910.3
WHIP1.57
WAR.1

WAR by season

0.60.3-0.1161718192022

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2022KC517.0011104815.143.111.5710.31.3130780.1
2020OAK4112.10101451073.655.621.707.35.182126-0.1
2019OAK13959.2521593242274.834.691.446.34.11071040.4
2018OAK2217115.27601035272264.054.691.125.62.0981130.4
2017OAK7743.032036152993.144.251.056.11.972980.6
2016OAK141472.0290835271336.504.341.618.94.11551040.6

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

Trend
2019OAK12000002.000.000.000.000—0.0%100.0%.000-0.6-123-0.0
2018OAK13101001.333.333.333.000.5000.0%33.3%.293-0.1860.0
2017OAK14100010.500.667.500.000.50025.0%0.0%.528+0.72320.1
2016OAK26000003.000.000.000.000.0000.0%50.0%.000-1.5-123-0.1

Platoon splits

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

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2022. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
SplitPAABHHRBBSOAVGOBPSLGwOBAK%
vs LHB972012.286.333.429.31922.2%
vs RHB23238106.348.348.522.37526.1%

Pitch sequencing

What Daniel Mengden 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.

Cutter32.8%3987.32,23751.3%20.8%14——
Four-Seam Fastball29.4%3592.52,10151.4%38.5%7——
Changeup19.3%2384.01,57047.8%8.3%5——
Curveball17.6%2172.32,40661.9%20.0%3——
Daniel Mengden'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.