3B · 2020
Erick Mejia
- Age
- 26
- B/T
- S/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Born
- November 9, 1994 in Villa Mella, Dominican Republic
- MLB debut
- September 5, 2019
- dbWAR
- -.2 2 season(s)
- PA
- 16
- AVG
- .071
- OBP
- .071
- SLG
- .143
- wRC+
- -59 100 = avg
Erick Mejia is a third baseman for the Kansas City Royals. In 2020 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 16 plate appearances in 7 games. His batting average was .071, 70.8% lower than the league average of .245. He reached base at a .071 clip and slugged .143, for an OPS of .214, 71.0% lower than the league mark of .740. He averaged 69.1 mph off the bat, hit 12.5% of balls in play at 95 mph or better and made contact on 72.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -59 wRC+ puts his offence 159% below average. That comes to -0.2 dbWAR — -3.2 runs with the bat, +0.2 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, 2020.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2020. These four terms sum to -2.5 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | .071 | .071 | .143 | .071 | .143 | 0.0% | 43.8% | .089 | -3.2 | -59 | -0.2 | |
| 2019 | 9 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 7 | .227 | .333 | .273 | .045 | .313 | 14.8% | 25.9% | .280 | -1.0 | 69 | -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 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 37.5% |
| vs RHP | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .143 | .143 | .286 | .177 | 50.0% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2020.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 8 tracked batted balls in 2020. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 69.1 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 96.3 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 12.5% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 37.5% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- 19.6° 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, 2020.
Situational hitting
How Erick Mejia 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 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .071 | .071 | .143 | .089 |
| Bases empty · thin | 11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .111 | .111 | .222 | .138 |
| Runner on first · thin | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Runners on · thin | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| RISP · 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, 2020.
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.