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J.P. France

Age: 31
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 198 lb

Born: April 4, 1995 in New Orleans, LA, United States
MLB debut: May 6, 2023
Drafted: 2018, round 14
College: Mississippi State
High school: Archbishop Shaw

dbWAR: .9
IP: 6.2
ERA: 8.10
FIP: 6.55
K/9: 5.4
FIP−: 157

J.P. France is a relief pitcher for the Houston Astros. In 2026 he struck out 4 batters over 6.2 innings across 3 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 8.10 was 93.7% higher than the league average of 4.18. Stripping out defence, his 6.55 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 15.1% of swings (6.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 16.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 12.9%. 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, 2026 regular season.

FIP6.55

K/95.4

WHIP1.65

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	HOU	3	0	6.2	0	0	6	6	4	5	8.10	6.55	1.65	5.4	6.8	194	157	-0.1
2025	HOU	2	0	4.0	1	0	2	1	5	2	2.25	2.14	1.00	11.3	4.5	54	51	0.1
2024	HOU	5	5	25.1	0	3	31	21	22	12	7.46	5.53	1.70	7.8	4.3	183	136	-0.1
2023	HOU	24	23	136.1	11	6	138	58	101	47	3.83	4.66	1.36	6.7	3.1	88	108	1.1

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 J.P. France'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	SV	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2023 Post	HOU	ALCS	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	6	4	0	2	2	12.00	2.67	6.0

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, 2026. 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	22	16	5	0	5	3	.313	.500	.375	.418	13.6%
vs RHB	9	9	1	1	0	1	.111	.111	.444	.225	11.1%

Pitch sequencing

What J.P. France 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


Curveball	28.2%	33	76.2	2,591	39.4%	21.4%	7	—	—
Cutter	23.1%	27	87.2	2,688	59.3%	12.5%	3	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	22.2%	26	92.3	2,357	26.9%	0.0%	6	—	—
Changeup	15.4%	18	86.1	2,015	22.2%	25.0%	6	—	—

J.P. France'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.