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Ryan Franklin

St. Louis Cardinals National League Central

Age: 38
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 190 lb
Number: #45

Born: March 5, 1973 in Fort Smith, AR, United States
MLB debut: May 15, 1999

dbWAR: 1.6
IP: 27.2
ERA: 8.46
FIP: 6.89
K/9: 5.5
FIP−: 175

Ryan Franklin was a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2011 he struck out 17 batters over 27.2 innings across 21 appearances, going 1-4. His ERA of 8.46 was 114.5% higher than the league average of 3.94 — the worst on his team, and 453rd of 457 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 6.89 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.0% of swings (7.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 5.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.8%. His -0.8 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.

League context

Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2011 regular season.

FIP6.89

K/95.5

WHIP1.84

WAR-.8

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2011; his career began in 1999, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2011	STL	21	0	27.2	1	4	1	44	26	17	7	8.46	6.89	1.84	5.5	2.3	215	175	-0.8
2010	STL	59	0	65.0	6	2	27	57	25	42	10	3.46	3.83	1.03	5.8	1.4	85	94	0.5
2009	STL	62	0	61.0	4	3	38	49	13	44	24	1.92	3.31	1.20	6.5	3.5	44	77	1.0
2008	STL	74	0	78.2	6	6	17	86	31	51	30	3.55	4.75	1.47	5.8	3.4	82	110	0.1
2007	STL	69	0	80.0	4	4	1	70	27	44	11	3.04	3.96	1.01	5.0	1.2	68	89	0.9
2006	PHI/CIN	66	0	77.1	6	7	0	86	39	43	33	4.54	5.66	1.54	5.0	3.8	100	125	-0.5
2005	SEA	32	30	190.2	8	15	0	212	108	93	62	5.10	5.04	1.44	4.4	2.9	119	117	0.5

Batting Regular season


2011	STL	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0
2010	STL	3	3	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.8	-127	-0.0
2007	STL	2	2	1	1	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.450	+0.2	181	0.0
2006	CIN/PHI	2	4	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-1.1	-123	-0.1
2005	SEA	2	5	0	0	1	0	.000	.200	.000	.000	.000	20.0%	0.0%	.142	-0.8	-29	-0.0

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason pitching

Postseason Ryan Franklin's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2009 Post	STL	NLDS	2	0	1.1	0	1	0	3	0	0	2	1	0.00	3.75	6.8

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2011. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	49	46	15	2	3	8	.326	.367	.543	.395	16.3%
vs RHB	84	74	29	7	4	9	.392	.425	.797	.520	10.7%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2011.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2011.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .254.

Pitch sequencing

What Ryan Franklin throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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Four-seamSinkerSplitterCurveballSliderChangeupCutterKnuckleball

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	42.9%	208	90.3	1,682	52.9%	12.8%	46	.348	.935
Sinker	16.9%	82	91.0	2,077	39.0%	7.5%	20	.500	1.374
Splitter	9.9%	48	82.7	790	39.6%	20.8%	13	—	—
Curveball	9.1%	44	77.3	1,400	34.1%	11.8%	12	—	—
Slider	8.7%	42	85.3	920	38.1%	12.5%	14	—	—
Changeup	5.8%	28	82.6	1,709	32.1%	46.7%	10	—	—
Cutter	3.3%	16	90.0	1,650	50.0%	11.1%	4	—	—

Ryan Franklin's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.