MJ Melendez squares the ball up — harder contact than 95% of qualified hitters. The strikeouts pile up, though — only 8% of qualified hitters whiff more often.
Each spoke is a skill estimate adjusted for sample size — not raw season stats — so farther out = better.
Percentiles vs. 463 qualified hitters.
Data through 2026-07-15.
Plays like…
Same archetype, nearest by rate — the hitters whose profile looks most like this one.
Every plate appearance ends one of three ways: a strikeout (0 bases), a walk (1 base), or a ball in play worth its estimated bases.
The bar splits his value into those pieces, versus the league.
More bases is better. In the table, 100th percentile = best in MLB.
Ball-in-play basesWalk bases
Bases per plate appearance
.279
.118
MJ Melendez
.351
.084
League average
What a replacement bat would have done
over MJ Melendez's 144 plate appearances
57
MJ Melendez
52
Replacement level
▲ +5 bases above replacement (created 57 vs 52)
MJ Melendez
League
Percentile
Bases per ball in play(higher = better)
.558
.510
68th
Walk rate(higher = better)
12%
8%
82nd
Strikeout rate(fewer = better)
35%
23%
8th
Platoon splits
Platoon splits (EB/PA)
Dot = shrunk true-talent estimate; bar = 89% credible interval.
Faint diamond = his raw, unshrunk rate against that hand — small samples make it noisy, which is why the model pulls the dot toward a more trustworthy estimate.
Shrunk splits beat raw splits decisively at low PA counts and converge with them as playing time builds — individual platoon gaps need roughly 1,000+ PA vs a hand before the raw number alone can be trusted.
Headline EB/PA (0.456)
vs LHP14 PA0.395
vs LHP: shrunk estimate 0.395 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.328 to 0.457, based on 14 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.519 EB/PA.
vs RHP127 PA0.475
vs RHP: shrunk estimate 0.475 EB/PA, 89% credible interval 0.419 to 0.533, based on 127 plate appearances. Raw (unshrunk) rate: 0.412 EB/PA.
0.3030.3670.4300.4940.557
0.080 EB/PA better vs RHP than vs LHP (shrunk estimate).
89% credible interval: +0.040 to +0.117
How he hits
Hits it to Pull most often, and does the most damage there too.
Best batted balls
Where every ball MJ Melendez put in play landed this season.
Dots are colored by estimated bases (EB) — pale slate (easy out) to dark teal (home-run territory).
Filled dots are hits; hollow rings are outs — a dark ring in the outfield is a crushed ball that got caught.
Hover a dot or a row to link the two; click to watch on Baseball Savant.
