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Jeff Francis

Age: 34
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #26

Born: January 8, 1981 in Vancouver, BC, Canada
MLB debut: August 25, 2004

dbWAR: 13.7
IP: 22.0
ERA: 6.14
FIP: 4.36
K/9: 8.6
FIP−: 110

Jeff Francis was a relief pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2015 he struck out 21 batters over 22.0 innings across 14 appearances, going 1-2. His ERA of 6.14 was 54.9% higher than the league average of 3.96 — the worst on his team, and 474th of 513 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.36 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.0% of swings (10.0% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 21.0%. His 0.0 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, 2015 regular season.

FIP4.36

K/98.6

WHIP1.64

WAR.0

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 2005–2015; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2015	TOR	14	0	22.0	1	2	0	27	15	21	9	6.14	4.36	1.64	8.6	3.7	155	110	0.0
2014	OAK/NYY/CIN	12	1	20.0	1	2	1	18	13	15	3	5.85	4.18	1.05	6.8	1.4	156	112	0.0
2013	COL	23	12	70.1	3	5	0	89	49	63	24	6.27	4.54	1.61	8.1	3.1	162	117	0.2
2012	COL	24	24	113.0	6	7	0	145	70	76	22	5.58	4.27	1.48	6.1	1.8	139	106	1.4
2011	KC	31	31	183.0	6	16	0	224	98	91	39	4.82	4.10	1.44	4.5	1.9	122	104	1.7
2010	COL	20	19	104.1	4	6	0	119	58	67	23	5.00	3.88	1.36	5.8	2.0	123	95	1.7
2008	COL	24	24	143.2	4	10	0	164	80	94	49	5.01	4.81	1.48	5.9	3.1	116	111	1.0
2007	COL	34	34	215.1	17	9	0	234	101	165	63	4.22	4.19	1.38	6.9	2.6	94	94	3.4
2006	COL	32	32	199.0	13	11	0	187	92	117	69	4.16	4.38	1.29	5.3	3.1	92	97	2.9
2005	COL	33	33	183.2	14	12	0	228	116	128	70	5.68	4.74	1.62	6.3	3.4	132	110	1.5

Batting Regular season


2014	CIN/OAK	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-123	-0.0
2013	COL	11	20	1	1	2	3	.071	.222	.143	.071	.083	10.0%	15.0%	.190	-2.0	10	0.0
2012	COL	23	39	2	0	2	8	.065	.121	.065	.000	.087	5.1%	20.5%	.096	-6.8	-46	-0.2
2011	KC	1	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-0.5	-121	-0.0
2010	COL	15	30	2	1	4	6	.091	.222	.091	.000	.118	13.3%	20.0%	.173	-3.6	-5	0.0
2008	COL	22	49	5	1	0	11	.128	.128	.154	.026	.179	0.0%	22.4%	.125	-8.4	-41	-0.2
2007	COL	32	79	12	3	2	20	.188	.212	.234	.047	.273	2.5%	25.3%	.203	-8.8	10	0.2
2006	COL	31	80	7	6	8	20	.115	.211	.115	.000	.163	10.0%	25.0%	.171	-11.1	-11	0.1
2005	COL	31	71	6	4	7	27	.103	.200	.138	.034	.194	9.9%	38.0%	.171	-9.3	-8	-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 Jeff Francis'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	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2007 Post	COL	Postseason total	3	3	16.2	2	1	21	9	3	6	15	4.86	1.62	8.1
		NLDS	1	1	6.0	1	0	4	2	2	2	8	3.00	1.00	12.0
		NLCS	1	1	6.2	1	0	7	1	0	1	4	1.35	1.20	5.4
		World Series	1	1	4.0	0	1	10	6	1	3	3	13.50	3.25	6.8

Postseason batting

Postseason Jeff Francis's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2007 Post	COL	Postseason total	2	6	4	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	3	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	3	2	.000	.000	.000	.000

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, 2015. 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	43	38	14	2	4	7	.368	.442	.553	.435	16.3%
vs RHB	57	52	13	1	5	14	.250	.316	.365	.305	24.6%

Pitch sequencing

What Jeff Francis 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.

Season


Sinker	44.8%	179	86.0	2,178	43.0%	13.7%	39	.385	.940
Curveball	21.5%	86	69.5	1,194	50.0%	29.7%	14	—	—
Changeup	16.5%	66	78.4	1,431	43.9%	32.3%	18	.222	.541
Slider	15.0%	60	78.7	353	46.7%	30.0%	15	.267	.820

Jeff Francis'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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Nearest 2015 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

Esmil RogersNYY

ERA: 6.27
FIP: 4.68
SO: 31
WAR: -0.1

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Justin De FratusPHI

ERA: 5.51
FIP: 4.28
SO: 68
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Neftalí FelizDET

ERA: 6.38
FIP: 4.05
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Bryan MitchellNYY

ERA: 6.37
FIP: 4.75
SO: 29
WAR: -0.1

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.