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Franklin Morales

Age: 30
B/T: L/L
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 lb
Number: #56

Born: January 24, 1986 in San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela
MLB debut: August 18, 2007

dbWAR: .6
IP: 4.0
ERA: 9.00
FIP: 6.90
K/9: 4.5
FIP−: 165

Franklin Morales was a relief pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2016 he struck out 2 batters over 4.0 innings across 5 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 9.00 was 114.8% higher than the league average of 4.19. Stripping out defence, his 6.90 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 7.7% of swings (3.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.5% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.5%. His -0.1 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, 2016 regular season.

FIP6.90

K/94.5

WHIP1.25

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2016	TOR	5	0	4.0	0	1	0	3	4	2	2	9.00	6.90	1.25	4.5	4.5	215	165	-0.1
2015	KC	67	0	62.1	4	2	0	58	22	41	14	3.18	3.52	1.16	5.9	2.0	80	89	0.7
2014	COL	38	22	142.1	6	9	0	166	85	100	65	5.37	5.42	1.62	6.3	4.1	144	145	-1.2
2013	BOS	20	1	25.1	2	2	0	24	13	21	15	4.62	4.55	1.54	7.5	5.3	119	118	-0.1
2012	BOS	37	9	76.1	3	4	1	64	32	76	30	3.77	4.39	1.23	9.0	3.5	94	109	0.3
2011	BOS/COL	50	0	46.1	1	2	0	40	19	42	19	3.69	4.26	1.27	8.2	3.7	94	108	0.1
2010	COL	35	0	28.2	0	4	3	28	20	27	24	6.28	6.29	1.81	8.5	7.5	154	154	-0.5
2009	COL	40	2	40.0	3	2	7	38	20	41	23	4.50	4.15	1.52	9.2	5.2	104	96	0.4
2008	COL	5	5	25.1	1	2	0	28	18	9	17	6.39	5.58	1.78	3.2	6.0	148	129	-0.0
2007	COL	8	8	39.1	3	2	0	34	15	26	14	3.43	3.80	1.22	5.9	3.2	77	85	0.8

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2014	COL	22	39	3	0	3	15	.100	.182	.100	.000	.200	7.7%	38.5%	.146	-5.0	-16	-0.0
2013	BOS	1	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	—	0.0%	100.0%	.000	-0.5	-124	-0.0
2012	BOS	1	2	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	0.0%	50.0%	.443	+0.2	175	0.0
2009	COL	4	5	2	1	0	2	.400	.400	.400	.000	.667	0.0%	40.0%	.361	+0.1	111	0.1
2008	COL	5	11	1	0	0	2	.100	.100	.100	.000	.125	0.0%	18.2%	.090	-2.2	-64	-0.1
2007	COL	8	15	4	1	1	5	.308	.357	.308	.000	.500	6.7%	33.3%	.309	-0.3	78	0.2

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 Franklin Morales's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2015 Post	KC	Postseason total	3	0	2.1	5	5	0	1	2	19.29	2.57	7.7
		ALCS	2	0	2.0	3	1	0	1	2	4.50	2.00	9.0
		World Series	1	0	0.1	2	4	0	0	0	108.00	6.00	0.0
2013 Post	BOS	Postseason total	3	0	1.1	3	1	0	2	0	6.75	3.75	0.0
		ALDS	1	0	0.1	1	1	0	1	0	27.00	6.00	0.0
		ALCS	2	0	1.0	2	0	0	1	0	0.00	3.00	0.0
2009 Post	COL	NLDS	4	0	2.2	0	0	0	3	1	0.00	1.13	3.4
2007 Post	COL	Postseason total	4	2	10.0	15	11	1	4	6	9.90	1.90	5.4
		NLDS	1	1	3.0	3	3	1	2	3	9.00	1.67	9.0
		NLCS	1	1	4.0	5	1	0	1	2	2.25	1.50	4.5
		World Series	2	0	3.0	7	7	0	1	1	21.00	2.67	3.0
Career		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	14	2	16.1	23	17	1	10	9	9.37	2.02	5.0

Postseason batting

Postseason Franklin Morales's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2007 Post	COL	Postseason total	3	3	3	2	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLDS	1	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
		World Series	1	1	1	1	.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, 2016. 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	10	9	2	1	1	1	.222	.300	.556	.365	10.0%
vs RHB	6	5	1	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.262	16.7%

Pitch sequencing

What Franklin Morales 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


Changeup	40.7%	24	83.6	1,098	25.0%	11.1%	6	—	—
Curveball	22.0%	13	73.0	1,412	61.5%	16.7%	1	—	—
Sinker	16.9%	10	88.8	2,124	50.0%	0.0%	3	—	—

Franklin Morales'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.