MJ Melendez has been, if we’re being honest with ourselves, a huge disappointment. Defensively, Melendez couldn’t stick at catcher and has been about as bad as possible in the outfield, where he has paired average sprint speed with some of the worst initial jumps in the game. Offensively, literally no baseball player swings and whiffs at more pitches in the strike zone, contributing to a poor batting average and an unsightly strikeout rate.
Per Fangraphs, Melendez has been far in the negative Wins Above Replacement this year and for his career; at -1.1 WAR since the start of last year, he has been the second worst player for the Royals over that time.