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2021 Baseball Roster

Darryl Webb

7 Alvin Melendez

  • Position Outfielder/Pitcher
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 195
  • Bats/Throws R/R
  • Class Fifth Year
  • Hometown Whitestone, N.Y.
  • Highschool Cardozo

Biography

MelendezUDEL2021: Appeared in 28 games in his final season, starting 25... Batted .264 with 18 runs scored, four doubles, three home runs, 14 RBI, and three stolen bases... Had four multi-hit games... After a slow start due to injury, totaled three hits, five runs scored, and three RBI in the Rams doubleheader at Delaware (3/27)... Made his 150th career hit a memorable one with a home run at Seton Hall (4/1)... Finished the season with a 3-for-4 performance at St. Bonaventure, scoring a career-high four runs to go with a home... Also made three relief pitching appearances, posting a 3.00 ERA and one save in three innings... Struck out the side in a inning of relief versus La Salle (5/16)... Had a save in the win at St. Bonaventure, pitching a scoreless inning of relief (5/20)... Third Team Preseason All-American by the NCBWA... Finished his career sixth all-time at Fordham in stolen bases (76), seventh in career ERA (2.36), and tied for fifth in career saves (14).

2020: Season cut short due to coronavirus pandemic... Was on pace for an outstanding season, starting all 15 games he appeared in... Ranked second on the team with a .392 batting average to go with a team-best six doubles and six sacrifice flies... Had eight runs scored, 15 RBI, and six stolen bases as well... Moved into eighth on the career stolen bases list with 73... Recorded seven multi-hit games, while being one of two players to have a ten-game hitting streak... Started that string going 2-for-4 with two runs scored versus CSUN (2/21)... Went 2-for-5 with a pair of RBI versus Sacred Heart, while also throwing five innings of relief with a career-high nine strikeouts to get the win (2/26)...Totaled four hits and seven RBI in the Furman series (2/28-3/1)... Went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a stolen base in a win over NJIT (3/4)... Recorded four hits, including a pair of doubles in the first two games against Iona (3/7-8)... Made five relief appearances on the mound as well, registering a team-best 0.90 ERA to go with a win and a save...  Had 13 strikeouts to just one walk in ten innings pitched... Aside from the Sacred Heart game, he had a pair of strikeouts in a scoreless inning at Furman (3/1) and against Iona (3/8)... Threw two scoreless innings for the save against NJIT, moving him into a tie for sixth on the career list at Fordham (3/4).

2019: Selected to the 2019 Atlantic 10 All-Championship Team... Named to the John Olerud Award Watch List for the best two-way player in the nation... Continued his play as a two-way player as the Rams' starting right fielder and as an opener on the mound... Played in 61 games, making 58 starts... Batted .270 at the plate with 37 runs scored, 10 doubles, two triples, five home runs, 29 RBI, and 35 stolen bases... Set career-highs in runs, hits (57), home runs, RBI, and stolen bases... Ranked 13th in the NCAA and second in the Atlantic 10 in stolen bases... Posted 16 multi-hit games and six multi-RBI performances... Has a personal-best 10-game hit streak at the end of the year and hit safely in 18 of his last 20 games... Reached base in the final 21 games of the year... Totaled five hits and three RBI in the North Florida series (2/22-24)... Had a pair of hits in three consecutive games against Sacred Heart (3/12), Wagner (3/13), and Towson (3/15)... Was 2-for-3 with a double, a home runs, two runs scored, and a career-high four RBI in a win over Manhattan, as he also pitched two innings with three strikeouts (3/20)... Tied a career-high with three stolen bases against Saint Joseph's (4/7)... Had a home run, two runs scored, and two RBI in a win at VCU (4/13)... Went 3-for-5 with three runs scored and an RBI at Fairleigh Dickinson (4/23)... Was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI at Saint Peter's, where he also recorded the save and four strikeouts on the mound (4/23)... Had three hits and three runs scored at UMass Lowell (4/27)... Totaled four RBI in a doubleheader sweep of La Salle (5/11)... Had two hits and two stolen bases in the regular season finale at Dayton (5/18)... Accounted for all the offense in Fordham's Atlantic 10 Championship day two 2-1 win over VCU, going 2-for-3 with an RBI-double, a stolen base, and a run scored (5/23)... Was 2-fro-4 with a double in the Atlantic 10 Championship game against Dayton (5/25)... Had a hit in the NCAA Regional game against #15 national seed West Virginia (5/31)... Scored a run against Texas A&M in the NCAA Regional (6/1)... Made 16 appearances on the mound, starting 12 as an opener... Went 2-1 with one save and a 3.19 ERA... Had 43 strikeouts in 36.2 innings... Tossed 3.2 innings of three-hit ball with two strikeouts at Texas A&M (2/17)... Had four strikeouts over four innings at UMES (3/1)... Struck out a career-high six batters over three innings in a win over Sacred Heart (3/12)... Had four strikeouts in games against St. Bonaventure (3/24) and Siena (4/3)... Did not allow an earned run over four innings against Columbia, posting five strikeouts (4/9)... Had five strikeouts in three innings at Albany (4/30).

278722018: Was once again a two-way player for the Rams, serving as one of the Rams' starting outfielder and as a reliever... Started all 42 games he appeared in as an outfielder... Led Fordham with a .294 batting average and a .397 on-base percentage... Scored 29 runs to go with 12 doubles, four triples, 16 RBI, 24 walks, and 26 stolen bases... Posted 13 multi-hit games and three multi-RBI games... Opened the season going 2-for-5 with two doubles and two runs scored against Evansville (2/16)... Was 3-for-5 with two RBI, three stolen bases, and the game-winning hit in extra innings against LIU Brooklyn (3/6)... Totaled two hits, two RBI, and two stolen bases in a doubleheader sweep of Coppin State (3/10)... Scored five runs in the Rams series at Davidson (3/23-25)... Was 2-for-2 with three runs scored against Saint Peter's (3/27)... Went 3-for-3 with a double, a triple, and two runs scored versus Manhattan (3/30)... Totaled four hits and two runs scored in the Rams' series at Saint Joseph's (4/27-29)... Was 2-for-5 with a double and the lone run of the game in a 1-0 extra-inning win over Hofstra (5/1)... Totaled six hits in the Rams' series at Massachusetts (5/11-13), which included going 3-for-6 with two runs scored in the finale... Went 2-for-3 with two runs scored and two stolen bases against Richmond (5/17)... Totaled four hits over three games in the Atlantic 10 Championship (5/23-24)... Made 14 relief appearances on the mound, going 2-1 with five saves, a 3.50 ERA, and 22 strikeouts over 18 innings... Earned the save in his first appearance at Wofford, striking out three over 2.1 innings (2/17)... Earned back-to-back saves at USF (2/23) and James Madison (3/3) with a scoreless inning in each game... Got the win in relief against LIU Brooklyn (3/6)... Had two strikeouts in a save against Cornell (3/18)... Closed out the Davidson series with a save (3/25)... Recorded his second win by striking out a season-high four batters over two innings against Hofstra (5/1).

2017: Selected to the NCBWA Freshman All-American Second Team as a relief pitcher... Named to the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team... Selected as Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week once... Two-player who saw action on the mound and in the field... Served as the Rams' closer, posting a 3-0 record with six saves in 17 appearances... Had an Atlantic 10-best 0.76 ERA in 23.2 innings... Held opponents to a .210 batting average... Had three strikeouts in 2.2 innings of relief against Canisius (3/4)... Recorded his first save with a scoreless inning against Sacred Heart (3/17)... Posted his first relief win at George Mason, where he threw a season-long five innings with a season-high five strikeouts (3/26)...Combined for three scoreless innings with four strikeouts in a doubleheader against La Salle, earning the save in game one and the win in game two (4/2)... Tossed two scoreless innings at Saint Louis (4/9)... Had a pair of saves in the LIU Brooklyn series (5/6-7)... Earned his third win of the year against Massachusetts, allowing one run over two innings of work (5/14)... Struck out the side to earn his sixth and final save of the season at St. Bonaventure (5/20)... Saw action at the plate, batting .225 with 14 runs scored, three doubles, two triples, a home run, and eight RBI... Added six stolen bases... Was 1-for-4 with a home run, two runs, scored, and three RBI at Houston Baptist (2/18)... Had three hits in the Saint Peter's doubleheader (4/5)... Was 1-for-3 with a pair of runs scored at Siena (4/11) and against LIU Brooklyn (5/7)... Had a bases loaded triple in the Rams' comeback win over Iona (5/16).

Before Fordham: Utility player, who saw action in both the infield and outfield at Cardozo High School... Four-year varsity baseball player and two-time captain... Earned All-League honors in each of his first three seasons at Cardozo... Named team MVP and the school's Athlete of the Spring twice each... Batted .421 with four home runs as a sophomore, and followed that season with three home runs and a .430 batting average as a junior...  Played summer ball for the Long Island Whalers... Was rated #2 on Blue Chip Prospects' list of best players on Long Island.

Major: Digital Technology & Emerging Media.
 
CAREER GAME HIGHS
Hitting:
Hits: 3, 7x, last at St. Bonaventure (5/22/21)
Runs: 4, at St. Bonaventure (5/22/21)
Doubles: 2, 3x, last vs. Iona (3/7/20)
RBI: 4, vs. Manhattan (3/20/19)
Walks: 3, at Davidson (3/24/18)
Stolen Bases: 3, 2x, last vs. Saint Joseph's (4/7/19)
Hit Streak: 10 games (2x, last 2/21 - 3/8/20)
Pitching:
Innings: 5.0, 2x, last vs. Sacred Heart (2/26/20)
Strikeouts: 9, vs. Sacred Heart (2/26/20)

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 4

    2017Freshman

    Infielder/Outfielder
    6'0" 175 lbs
    4
  • 7

    2018Sophomore

    Infielder/Outfielder
    6'0" 175 lbs
    7
  • 7

    2019Junior

    Outfielder/Pitcher
    6'0" 178 lbs
    7
  • 7

    2020Senior

    Outfielder/Pitcher
    6'0" 195 lbs
    7
  • 7

    2021Fifth Year

    Outfielder/Pitcher
    6'0" 195 lbs
    7