https://blogs.fangraphs.com/calculating-war-using-re24/A bit of a retrospective on Joey Meneses's contribution to the Nats this season. Folks have talked about Meneses hitting with runners in scoring position as a defense for his being on the roster or, last year, comparing his offense to that of Dom Smith, who seemed remarkably unclutch. A lot of the drubbing Meneses took was for his basic stat line, like his triple slash line, OPS, or WAR.
Well, the linked article in a way highlights this split screen in the way to look at Meneses. RE24 (the change in run expectancy in the 24 base and out states from the beginning of a plate appearance to the end) is a way of looking at the outcomes of PAs in context. in the example provided in the article, a bases empty double changes the RE24 less than a double with 2 men on.
Meneses was notorious in a good way for singling with men on, especially with men on, 2 outs. As it turns out, when the article recalculates the offensive component of fWAR using RE24 rather than context-neutral offensive numbers, Meneses's fWAR improves by 0.96 (from -0.93 to 0.03). Meneses's jump in WAR puts him comfortably among the top 10 players' improvements in 2024, along with the leader, Brandon Nimmo and some stud contributors to contenders like Jose Ramirez, Adley Rutschman, and 2 members of the over-performing Royals, Bobby Witt Jr and Vinnie Pasquantino. Meneses is far and away the worst performer on the list as the only one with negative standard fWAR, and remains the worst using RE24 by over 1 WAR (to TJ Friedl).
tl;dr version - there's a way to measure just how much Meneses's performance with RISP made him more valuable than just looking at average, OBP, slugging, and homers.
