P · 2019

Francisco Liriano

Pittsburgh Pirates National League CentralP

Age: 36
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 220 lb

Born: October 26, 1983 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: September 5, 2005

dbWAR: 4.1
PA: 2
AVG: 1.000
OBP: 1.000
SLG: 1.000
wRC+: 418

Francisco Liriano is a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 1 hit across 2 plate appearances in 2 games. His batting average was 1.000, 296.4% higher than the league average of .252. He reached base at a 1.000 clip and slugged 1.000, for an OPS of 2.000, 164.0% higher than the league mark of .758. He averaged 63.4 mph off the bat and made contact on 83.3% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 418 wRC+ puts his offence 318% above average. That comes to 0.1 dbWAR — +0.8 runs with the bat, -0.0 on the bases, +0.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2019.

wRC+418

wOBA.792

ISO.000

BB%50.0%

WAR.1

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to +0.9 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.

BattingBaserunningPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.000	1.000	50.0%	0.0%	.792	+0.8	418	0.1
2018	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.5	-122	-0.0
2016	21	42	12	1	5	0	16	.286	.286	.381	.095	.440	0.0%	38.1%	.288	-1.1	77	0.0
2015	27	67	11	1	7	0	28	.169	.169	.246	.077	.278	0.0%	41.8%	.180	-7.3	4	-0.5

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2019	69	0	70.0	5	3	60	27	63	35	3.47	4.53	1.36	8.1	4.5	77	101	0.3
2018	27	26	133.2	5	12	127	68	110	73	4.58	5.11	1.50	7.4	4.9	110	123	-0.1
2017	38	18	97.0	6	7	105	61	85	53	5.66	4.64	1.63	7.9	4.9	130	107	0.4
2016	31	29	163.0	8	13	157	85	168	85	4.69	4.89	1.48	9.3	4.7	112	117	0.3
2015	31	31	186.2	12	7	155	70	205	70	3.38	3.19	1.21	9.9	3.4	85	80	3.7

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2019. 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 LHP	1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.872	0.0%
vs RHP	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	.712	0.0%

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2019. 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	88	73	14	2	14	22	.192	.330	.329	.300	25.0%
vs RHB	214	187	46	6	22	41	.246	.329	.401	.315	19.2%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 0.0%
Exit velocity: 63.4
Max exit velo: 63.4
Hard hit: 0.0%
Sweet spot: 0.0%
Launch angle: -55.0°

Barrel rate0.0%

Exit velocity63.4 mph

Hard hit rate0.0%

Contact rate83.3%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2019.

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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 .252.

Situational hitting

How Francisco Liriano hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.000	1.000	1.000	.792
Bases empty · thin	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	.712
Runners on · thin	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.872
RISP · thin	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	.872

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2019.

Pitch sequencing

What Francisco Liriano 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, and how often it misses in 2019.


Sinker	35.1%	398	93.0	2,047	40.5%	10.1%
Slider	30.3%	344	87.0	2,289	48.3%	42.8%
Changeup	26.0%	295	87.0	1,682	44.7%	42.6%
Four-Seam Fastball	8.6%	98	92.9	2,075	42.9%	13.2%

Francisco Liriano'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.

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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.