P · 2018
Yohander Méndez
- Age
- 24
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 4"
- Weight
- 230 lb
- Born
- January 17, 1995 in Valencia, VEN
- MLB debut
- September 5, 2016
Age shown as of the 2019 season.
- dbWAR
- -.6 5 season(s)
- PA
- 2
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -109 100 = avg
Yohander Méndez is a pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2018 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 2 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .248. 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 averaged 68.3 mph off the bat and made contact on 50.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -109 wRC+ puts his offence 209% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.5 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, 2018.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2018. These four terms sum to -0.4 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -109 | -0.0 | — |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 4.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 5.79 | 8.57 | 1.93 | 15.4 | 9.6 | 128 | 190 | -0.2 | |
| 2018 | 8 | 5 | 27.2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 5.53 | 5.37 | 1.55 | 5.9 | 4.9 | 133 | 129 | -0.2 | |
| 2017 | 7 | 0 | 12.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 5.11 | 6.16 | 1.30 | 5.1 | 2.2 | 117 | 141 | -0.2 | |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 18.00 | 5.15 | 2.33 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 430 | 123 | -0.0 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 50.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 26 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 3 | .364 | .462 | .455 | .410 | 11.5% |
| vs RHB | 95 | 84 | 20 | 4 | 11 | 15 | .238 | .326 | .429 | .332 | 15.8% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2018. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 68.3 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 68.3 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -13.0° 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, 2018.
Situational hitting
How Yohander Méndez 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 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 2 | 2 | 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, 2018.
Pitch sequencing
What Yohander Méndez 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 2018.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 216 | 92.2 | 2,063 | 44.9% | 15.5% | |
| Changeup | 113 | 82.8 | 1,718 | 44.2% | 41.0% | |
| Sinker | 75 | 90.4 | 2,067 | 28.0% | 12.0% | |
| Slider | 63 | 84.0 | 2,116 | 33.3% | 16.7% | |
| Curveball | 24 | 78.4 | 2,038 | 33.3% | 0.0% |
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.