Joey Meneses

Joey Meneses

31-Year-Old First Baseman1B
Washington Nationals
2023 Fantasy Outlook
Meneses was the International Player of the Year in 2018, batting .311/.360/.510 with Triple-A Lehigh. Meneses played in Japan for two years then returned stateside in 2021, landing in the Red Sox system. He signed a minor league deal with the Nationals for the 2022 campaign. After cleaning house at the trade deadline, Washington promoted the 30-year-old for his MLB debut. He slashed .286/.341/.489 for Triple-A Rochester. Meneses crushed 13 homers in two months, though two xHR metrics pegged him for 10. While Meneses power was in line with his minor league numbers, his .371 BABIP with the Nationals was artificially high, spurred by an unsustainable number of outfield line drives sporting a high BABIP. Even with batting average regression, Meneses warrants a look at first base in a transition year for the Nationals. His power is mixed-league worthy, but brace for the inevitable dip in batting average. Read Past Outlooks
RANKSFrom Preseason
#188
ADP
$Signed a one-year contract with the Nationals in May of 2023.
Productive in wild win
1BWashington Nationals
May 27, 2023
Meneses went 3-for-5 with a walk, a double, two runs scored and three RBI in Friday's 12-10 win over the Royals.
ANALYSIS
The 31-year-old continues to tear it up in May. Over his last 20 games, Meneses is slashing .361/.398/.482 with 12 runs and 18 RBI, although he has only one homer during that stretch and just two on the season. Given his 81st percentile hard-hit rate and shockingly unlucky 4.4 percent HR/FB rate, it seems only a matter of time before Meneses starts sending more balls flying over the fence.
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Batting Order Slot Breakdown
vs Right-Handed Pitchers
vs RHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
2
12
19
vs Left-Handed Pitchers
vs LHP
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
3
12
5
Left/Right Batting Splits
Since 2021
 
 
+13%
OPS vs LHP
2023
 
 
+3%
OPS vs RHP
2022
 
 
+26%
OPS vs LHP
2021
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2021vs Left .902 150 15 5 16 0 .329 .373 .529
Since 2021vs Right .796 326 41 10 47 1 .305 .344 .452
2023vs Left .715 74 6 0 5 0 .290 .338 .377
2023vs Right .736 162 17 2 24 0 .305 .340 .396
2022vs Left 1.084 76 9 5 11 0 .366 .408 .676
2022vs Right .857 164 24 8 23 1 .305 .348 .510
2021vs Left 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2021vs Right 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Home/Away Batting Splits
Since 2021
 
 
+12%
OPS on Road
2023
 
 
+22%
OPS on Road
2022
 
 
+1%
OPS on Road
2021
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OPS PA R HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG
Since 2021Home .782 231 25 5 28 0 .303 .342 .440
Since 2021Away .874 245 31 10 35 1 .322 .363 .511
2023Home .659 120 9 0 13 0 .291 .308 .350
2023Away .805 116 14 2 16 0 .311 .371 .434
2022Home .923 111 16 5 15 0 .317 .378 .545
2022Away .935 129 17 8 19 1 .331 .357 .579
2021Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2021Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Stat Review
How does Joey Meneses compare to other hitters?
This section compares his stats with all batting seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 400 plate appearances)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.

* Exit Velocity and Barrels/PA % are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 400 PA) and Hard Hit Rate is benchmarked against last season's data (min 400 PA). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
  • BB/K
    Walk to strikeout ratio
  • BB Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a walk.
  • K Rate
    The percentage of plate appearances resulting in a strikeout.
  • BABIP
    Batting average on balls in play. Measures how many of a batter’s balls in play go for hits.
  • ISO
    Isolated Power. Slugging percentage minus batting average. A computation used to measure a batter's raw power.
  • AVG
    Batting average. Hits divided by at bats.
  • OBP
    On Base Percentage. A measure of how often a batters reaches base. Roughly equal to number of times on base divided by plate appearances.
  • SLG
    Slugging Percentage. A measure of the batting productivity of a hitter. It is calculated as total bases divided by at bats.
  • OPS
    On base plus slugging. THe sum of a batter's on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
  • wOBA
    Weighted on-base average. Measures a player's overall offensive contributions per plate appearance. wOBA combines all the different aspects of hitting into one metric, weighting each of them in proportion to their actual run value.
  • Exit Velocity
    The speed of the baseball as it comes off the bat, immediately after a batter makes contact.
  • Hard Hit Rate
    A measure of contact quality from Sports Info Solutions. This stat explains what percentage of batted balls were hit hard vs. medium or soft.
  • Barrels/PA
    The percentage of plate appearances where a batter had a batted ball classified as a Barrel. A Barrel is a batted ball with similar exit velocity and launch angle to past ones that led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage.
  • Expected BA
    Expected Batting Average.
  • Expected SLG
    Expected Slugging Percentage.
  • Sprint Speed
    The speed of a runner from home to first, in feet per second.
  • Ground Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are on the ground.
  • Line Drive %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are line drives.
  • Fly Ball %
    The percentage of balls put in play that are fly balls.
BB/K
0.29
 
BB Rate
5.5%
 
K Rate
19.1%
 
BABIP
.369
 
ISO
.090
 
AVG
.300
 
OBP
.339
 
SLG
.390
 
OPS
.729
 
wOBA
.323
 
Exit Velocity
89.5 mph
 
Hard Hit Rate
30.3%
 
Barrels/PA
3.4%
 
Expected BA
.254
 
Expected SLG
.357
 
Sprint Speed
23.0 ft/sec
 
Ground Ball %
49.4%
 
Line Drive %
22.5%
 
Fly Ball %
28.1%
 
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Three hits against Tigers
1BWashington Nationals
May 22, 2023
Meneses went 3-for-5 with a run scored and an RBI in Sunday's win over the Tigers.
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Back from paternity list
1BWashington Nationals
May 19, 2023
Meneses was reinstated from the paternity list Friday, Mark Zuckerman of MASNSports.com reports.
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Going on paternity leave
1BWashington Nationals
Personal
May 17, 2023
The Nationals will place Meneses on the paternity list Wednesday, Bobby Blanco of MASNSports.com reports.
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Four RBI in win
1BWashington Nationals
May 16, 2023
Meneses went 4-for-5 with three doubles and four RBI in Monday's 10-3 win over the Mets.
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Delivers clutch homer
1BWashington Nationals
May 7, 2023
Meneses went 3-for-5 with a home run, four RBI and two total runs scored in Sunday's 9-8 win over the Diamondbacks.
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