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MJ Melendez

Royals Career team 2022–2025
Number #1
Position DH
Bats L
Throws R
Age 27
Height 6' 0"
Weight 190 lbs
Birth Place Daytona Beach, FL
Born Nov 29, 1998

Key Insights

2026
This matchup ends in a strikeout more often than not

Reese Olson has struck Melendez out 7 times in 11 plate appearances, 63.6% of everything between them.

7 strikeouts in 11 plate appearances.
One club he looks forward to seeing on the schedule

Against the arms currently on the SD, Melendez has hit .350 and slugged .783 over 70 plate appearances, his best of any club.

21 hits, 7 home runs and 20 strikeouts, against a .364 slugging median across the clubs he has faced.
He is a different player against this opponent

Melendez carries a .678 career OPS; against Tanner Bibee it is .125, over 16 plate appearances.

0 for 14 with 0 home runs.
This opponent takes the sting out of his bat

Melendez cannot get the barrel to Michael Kopech: 81.9 mph off the bat against him, against a median of 92.2 across the pitchers he has faced.

9 plate appearances with tracked contact.
The long balls in this matchup all go one way

Melendez has hit 4 home runs off Nick Pivetta, one every 2.2 plate appearances they have shared.

9 career plate appearances against him.
When these two meet, the ball gets hit hard

Melendez hits Jon Gray harder than anyone: 99.7 mph off the bat, against a median of 92.2 across the pitchers he has faced.

8 plate appearances with tracked contact.

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Player Bio Data
DOB Nov 29, 1998
Birth Place Daytona Beach, FL
Height 6' 0"
Weight 190 lbs LBS
Bats/Throws L/R