Joey Meneses

Joey Meneses...Is engaged to Mitzy Guzman...they have one son, Joseph...Is a fan of the show Dragon Ball Z...His favorite character is Goku...Signed with the New York Mets as a Minor League free agent on Nov. 22, 2024.

2024

Opened the season with Washington before being optioned to Rochester (AAA), July 4...Clubbed a home run on May 14 at Boston...With the blast, he has homered against each of his previous organizations (ATL/ BOS/PHI)…Tied for fourth in MLB with 13 hits with two outs and runners in scoring position from the beginning of the season until July 4...Hit .317 with 10 doubles, four homers, 14 RBI, five walks and 14 runs scored in his final 21 games at Triple-A.

2023

Played in 154 games in his first full MLB season...One of just 19 players in the National League to play in at least 154 games...Led MLB with 61 hits with runners in scoring position...Ranked sixth in the National League (12th in MLB) with a .363 average with runners in scoring position...Ranked third in MLB with a .381 average vs. righties with RISP...Ranked tied for eighth in the NL in doubles...Was tied for fifth in the NL with 15 game-winning RBI and tied for sixth with 27 go-ahead RBI...Homered in three straight for the second time in his career July 7-9, 2023 vs. Texas...Homered four times in three games...Put together a career-best 18-game on-base streak from May 21 to June 12...Clubbed a go-ahead, three-run home run in the ninth inning on May 7 at Arizona giving Washington the 9-8 come-from-behind victory....Hit game-tying (7th inn.) and game-winning (9th inn.) homers on Aug. 8 at Philadelphia.

2022

Contract was selected on Aug. 2... Led Washington in hits (72), homers (13) and RBI (34) from that point on...Aug. 2 vs. New York (NL), Meneses became the first Mexican-born player to homer in his Major League debut... He became the first player in franchise (MON/WSH) history to have five homers in his first nine games...In MLB history, only Trevor Story hit more homers (7) in his first nine games...His 72 hits through his first 56 games were the most by any rookie through his first 56 games in franchise history (MON/WSH)…From Aug. 9-Aug. 14, he recorded five straight multi-hit games, the longest streak by a Nationals player in 2022 and one of 20 five-plus game multi-hit streaks in MLB this season... Recorded both a nine-game hitting streak and an 11-game hitting streak during August...Went 12-for-43 (.279) w/RISP after starting 1-for-16...Tied a franchise (MON/WSH) record three doubles on Aug. 30 vs. Oakland...On Sept. 1 vs. Oakland, he hit the first walk-off home run of the season for Washington, a 10th-inning, three-run homer...It was a part of one of his two four-hit games this season...Went 7-for-12 (.583) in a three-game series against the Atlanta Braves - the team that originally signed him - from Sept. 19-21...Hit the eighth inside-the-park home run in Nationals history on Sept. 16 vs. Miami (Luzardo)…At the time of his promotion, he led the system with 20 home runs, 64 RBI, 107 hits and 183 total bases...He ranked among Nationals Minor Leaguers in slugging (2nd, .489), OPS (2nd, .830), batting average (3rd, .286) and extra-base hits (T3rd, 35).

2021

Combined to hit .284 with 31 doubles, five triples, 15 homers, 70 RBI, 25 walks and 45 runs scored in 88 games between Double-A Portland and Triple-A Worcester...Ranked in Boston's Minor League system in extra base hits (3rd, 49), doubles (3rd, 31) and RBI (7th, 70).

2020

Did not play.

2019

Played 29 games for Orix in Japan. Batted .206/.288/.363 with four home runs and 14 RBI in 102 at-bats.

2018

Named International League MVP, Rookie of the Year and All-Star...Was a three-time International League Player of the Week (May 5, May 20, Aug. 5).