Joey Meneses
1B/DH FA
Tue 5/16/23 10:32 AM

Meneses went 4-for-5 with three doubles and four RBI in Monday's 10-3 win over the Mets.
EDGE Analysis
Meneses' first RBI double opened the scoring in the bottom of the first, and his second put the Nationals back on top 2-1. He struck out his third time up but responded with a run-scoring, infield single in the sixth and extended Washington's lead to 10-2 with another RBI double in the eighth. Monday's performance marked Meneses' third four-hit game of the season, but it was his first outing of the year with multiple extra-base knocks. The 31-year-old is slashing .300/.328/.394 across 40 games (177 plate appearances) and is proving his breakout 2022 campaign wasn't a fluke.

Joey Meneses
1B/DH FA
Sun 5/7/23 8:25 PM

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.
EDGE Analysis
Meneses helped the Nationals stay within striking distance with an RBI single in the seventh inning. He made a bigger impact in his next at-bat, swatting a go-ahead, three-run homer that gave Washington a lead that would stick after Hunter Harvey converted the save. Meneses has gone 13-for-38 (.342) over his last nine contests, but 12 of those hits have been singles. For the season, he's slashing .277/.301/.362 with two homers, 14 RBI, 13 runs scored and six doubles through 33 games. He's hitting reasonably well, but his numbers are a far cry from the .324/.367/.563 slash line he had in a 56-game sample last year.

Joey Meneses
1B/DH FA
Mon 5/1/23 12:28 AM

Meneses went 4-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored in Sunday's victory over the Pirates.
EDGE Analysis
Meneses has been heating up after a sluggish start to the season, going 11-for-31 over his last seven games. However, the 30-year-old Menses has yet to hit for the power he demonstrated in his breakthrough rookie season, with just one home run and seven extra-base hits through his first 112 at-bats this year. He's now slashing .286/.316/.366 with 10 RBI and eight runs scored through 117 plate appearances.

Joey Meneses
1B/DH FA
Sat 4/22/23 6:01 PM

Meneses went 4-for-6 with a double and two RBI in Saturday's win over the Twins.
EDGE Analysis
Menseses drove in the first run with an infield single in the first off Pablo Lopez, and an inning later he roped a single to center to give the Nationals a 3-0 lead. After a slow start to the season, Meneses has now picked up multiple hits in three of his last six games, and a .204 average on April 14 is now up to .259 with the strong efforts. Menseses is a flawed fantasy player, but he's one of the few Washington regulars that has offensive upside.

Joey Meneses
1B/DH FA
Sat 4/22/23 12:28 AM

Meneses went 1-for-4 with one homer, one RBI and one run scored in Friday's victory over the Twins.
EDGE Analysis
Meneses was excellent in 2022 as he hit 13 home runs and hit .324 in 56 games. But 2023 has been a major letdown down for the 30-year-old. He finally hit his first home run Friday, as his seventh inning solo shot started a Washington comeback. The first baseman is hitting .227 in 18 games.

Joey Meneses
1B/DH FA
Sun 4/9/23 1:40 PM

Meneses is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Rockies.
EDGE Analysis
Meseses will get his first day off of the young season while Stone Garrett steps in to spell him as the Nationals' designated hitter. While starting each of the first nine games, Meneses has yet to hit a home run and has scored just four times to go with one RBI.

Joey Meneses
1B/DH FA
Fri 4/7/23 11:44 PM

Meneses went 2-for-3 with one double and a run scored in Friday's 10-5 win over Colorado. He also walked twice.
EDGE Analysis
Meneses got off to a terrible start to begin the season, and even with the four-reach game the right-hander hitter is slashing just .219/.286/.281. Based on what he showed at the end of 2022 and his success in events like the World Baseball Classic, it's very likely those numbers see a significant bump in the coming weeks.

Joey Meneses
1B/DH FA
Mon 3/13/23 5:55 AM

Meneses went 3-for-5 with two home runs and five RBI in Sunday's 11-5 win for Team Mexico over Team USA.
EDGE Analysis
After staking Mexico to an early 2-0 lead with a blast off Nick Martinez in the first inning, Meneses put the game out of reach with a three-run shot in the fourth off Brady Singer. Both homers came off his bat with exit velocities above 102 mph, per Jesse Borek of MLB.com. Meneses didn't do much at the plate during Grapefruit League play before the WBC began, going 4-for-20 with zero extra-base hits, but Sunday's performance is a reminder that the power he displayed at the end of the 2022 season is very real. The 30-year-old is set to fill an everyday role in the majors this year for the first time in his career, seeing most of his action at DH for the Nationals while also spotting in at first base and potentially in the outfield corners once again.

Joey Meneses
1B/DH FA
Sat 10/1/22 10:24 PM

Meneses went 3-for-4 with a home run, a double and four RBI in a 13-4 win over the Phillies in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader. He also scored four runs and drew a walk.
EDGE Analysis
Meneses had himself a day at the plate on Saturday, beginning with a three-run double with two outs in the second inning to put the Nationals up 4-1. He followed that up with a homer to lead off the fifth - his seventh long ball since the start of September, to go along with 22 RBI and 17 runs scored. It was also the rookie first baseman's 11th multi-hit game in that 27-game span.

Joey Meneses
1B/DH FA
Mon 9/26/22 1:12 PM

Meneses went 2-for-5 with a two-run home run in Sunday's 6-1 win over the Marlins.
EDGE Analysis
The 30-year-old rookie put the Nationals on the board in the top of the first inning with the two-run drive to center field. The home run was his second in as many days and his 12th since being called up from Triple-A Syracuse in early August. With a .943 OPS through his first 200 big-league plate appearances, Meneses has likely secured a full-time role for the Nationals entering the 2023 season.