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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.

FIP6.90

K/94.5

WHIP1.25

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
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

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.