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Francisco Rodríguez
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 195 lb
- Number
- #57
- Born
- January 7, 1982 in Caracas, Venezuela
- MLB debut
- September 18, 2002
- dbWAR
- 11.3 Regular season, 2005–2017 only
- IP
- 25.1
- ERA
- 7.82
- FIP
- 7.38
- K/9
- 8.2
- FIP−
- 169 100 = avg
Francisco Rodríguez was a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2017 he struck out 23 batters over 25.1 innings across 28 appearances, going 2-5. His ERA of 7.82 was 79.3% higher than the league average of 4.36 — the worst on his team, and 517th of 527 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 7.38 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 24.7% of swings (10.2% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 19.5%. His -0.7 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, 2017 regular season.
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 2005–2017; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | DET | 28 | 0 | 25.1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 7.82 | 7.38 | 1.66 | 8.2 | 3.9 | 179 | 169 | -0.7 | |
| 2016 | DET | 61 | 0 | 58.1 | 3 | 4 | 44 | 45 | 21 | 52 | 21 | 3.24 | 3.83 | 1.13 | 8.0 | 3.2 | 77 | 91 | 0.6 | |
| 2015 | MIL | 60 | 0 | 57.0 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 38 | 14 | 62 | 11 | 2.21 | 2.91 | 0.86 | 9.8 | 1.7 | 56 | 73 | 1.1 | |
| 2014 | MIL | 69 | 0 | 68.0 | 5 | 5 | 44 | 49 | 23 | 73 | 18 | 3.04 | 4.50 | 0.99 | 9.7 | 2.4 | 81 | 120 | -0.2 | |
| 2013 | MIL/BAL | 48 | 0 | 46.2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 42 | 14 | 54 | 14 | 2.70 | 3.65 | 1.20 | 10.4 | 2.7 | 70 | 94 | 0.4 | |
| 2012 | MIL | 78 | 0 | 72.0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 65 | 35 | 72 | 31 | 4.38 | 3.83 | 1.33 | 9.0 | 3.9 | 109 | 95 | 0.7 | |
| 2011 | NYM/MIL | 73 | 0 | 71.2 | 6 | 2 | 23 | 67 | 21 | 79 | 26 | 2.64 | 2.72 | 1.30 | 9.9 | 3.3 | 67 | 69 | 1.4 | |
| 2010 | NYM | 53 | 0 | 57.1 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 45 | 14 | 67 | 21 | 2.20 | 2.63 | 1.15 | 10.5 | 3.3 | 54 | 64 | 1.3 | |
| 2009 | NYM | 70 | 0 | 68.0 | 3 | 6 | 35 | 51 | 28 | 73 | 38 | 3.71 | 4.01 | 1.31 | 9.7 | 5.0 | 86 | 93 | 0.6 | |
| 2008 | LAA | 76 | 0 | 68.1 | 2 | 3 | 62 | 54 | 17 | 77 | 34 | 2.24 | 3.22 | 1.29 | 10.1 | 4.5 | 52 | 74 | 1.3 | |
| 2007 | LAA | 64 | 0 | 67.1 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 50 | 21 | 90 | 34 | 2.81 | 2.70 | 1.25 | 12.0 | 4.5 | 63 | 60 | 1.7 | |
| 2006 | LAA | 69 | 0 | 73.0 | 2 | 3 | 47 | 52 | 14 | 98 | 28 | 1.73 | 2.72 | 1.10 | 12.1 | 3.5 | 38 | 60 | 1.8 | |
| 2005 | LAA | 66 | 0 | 67.1 | 2 | 5 | 45 | 45 | 20 | 91 | 32 | 2.67 | 3.09 | 1.14 | 12.2 | 4.3 | 62 | 72 | 1.3 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2017; his career began in 2002, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
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
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Post | MIL | Postseason total | 5 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1.80 | 1.80 | 14.4 |
| NLDS | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 18.0 | ||
| NLCS | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3.00 | 1.33 | 12.0 | ||
| 2008 Post | LAA | ALDS | 2 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7.71 | 3.00 | 7.7 |
| 2007 Post | LAA | ALDS | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 54.00 | 6.00 | 27.0 |
| 2005 Post | LAA | Postseason total | 5 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1.59 | 1.76 | 7.9 |
| ALDS | 3 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2.70 | 1.50 | 5.4 | ||
| ALCS | 2 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.00 | 2.14 | 11.6 | ||
| 2005–2017 | Postseason total · 4 Octobers | 13 | 0 | 13.1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 4.05 | 2.10 | 10.8 |
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.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 57 | 53 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 13 | .340 | .386 | .792 | .481 | 22.8% |
| vs RHB | 61 | 53 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 10 | .245 | .344 | .491 | .361 | 16.4% |
Pitch sequencing
What Francisco Rodríguez throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
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Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 238 | 89.0 | 2,069 | 40.8% | 12.7% | 53 | .321 | 1.182 | |
| Changeup | 153 | 83.3 | 1,745 | 49.7% | 37.8% | 44 | .250 | .827 | |
| Curveball | 38 | 74.9 | 2,648 | 36.8% | 21.4% | 8 | — | — |
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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.