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Framber Valdez

Age: 33
B/T: R/L
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 230 lb
Number: #59

Born: November 19, 1993 in Palenque, Dominican Republic
MLB debut: August 21, 2018
Salary, 2026: $22.8M

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dbWAR: 23.4
IP: 174.0
ERA: 4.03
FIP: 4.14
K/9: 7.0
FIP−: 99

Framber Valdez is a starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2026 he struck out 135 batters over 174.0 innings across 31 appearances, 31 of them starts, going 10-12. His ERA of 4.03 was 3.5% lower than the league average of 4.18 — 13th of 20 on his team, and 273rd of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.14 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.6% of swings (9.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.8%. His 2.1 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.

FIP4.14

K/97.0

WHIP1.36

WAR2.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2026	DET	31	31	174.0	10	12	170	78	135	67	4.03	4.14	1.36	7.0	3.5	96	99	2.1
2025	HOU	31	31	192.0	13	11	171	78	187	68	3.66	3.37	1.24	8.8	3.2	88	81	4.0
2024	HOU	28	28	176.1	15	7	140	57	169	55	2.91	3.25	1.11	8.6	2.8	71	80	3.9
2023	HOU	31	31	198.0	12	11	166	76	200	57	3.45	3.50	1.13	9.1	2.6	80	81	4.2
2022	HOU	31	31	201.1	17	6	166	63	194	67	2.82	3.06	1.16	8.7	3.0	71	77	4.6
2021	HOU	22	22	134.2	11	6	110	47	125	58	3.14	4.01	1.25	8.4	3.9	74	94	2.1
2020	HOU	11	10	70.2	5	3	63	28	76	16	3.57	2.85	1.12	9.7	2.0	80	64	2.1
2019	HOU	26	8	70.2	4	7	74	46	68	44	5.86	4.98	1.67	8.7	5.6	130	111	0.2
2018	HOU	8	5	37.0	4	1	22	9	34	24	2.19	4.65	1.24	8.3	5.8	53	112	0.1

Batting Regular season

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

																					Trend
2021	HOU	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	50.0%	.000	-1.1	-121	-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 Framber Valdez'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
2024 Post	HOU	Wild Card	1	1	4.1	0	1	7	3	0	2	3	6.23	2.08	6.2
2023 Post	HOU	Postseason total	3	3	12.0	0	3	19	12	4	6	17	9.00	2.08	12.8
		ALDS	1	1	4.1	0	1	7	5	1	3	5	10.38	2.31	10.4
		ALCS	2	2	7.2	0	2	12	7	3	3	12	8.22	1.96	14.1
2022 Post	HOU	Postseason total	4	4	25.0	3	0	14	4	1	8	33	1.44	0.88	11.9
		ALDS	1	1	5.2	0	0	4	2	0	3	6	3.18	1.24	9.5
		ALCS	1	1	7.0	1	0	4	0	0	0	9	0.00	0.57	11.6
		World Series	2	2	12.1	2	0	6	2	1	5	18	1.46	0.89	13.1
2021 Post	HOU	Postseason total	5	5	19.2	1	1	28	17	6	8	16	7.78	1.83	7.3
		ALDS	1	1	4.1	0	0	7	4	0	1	6	8.31	1.85	12.5
		ALCS	2	2	10.2	1	0	9	3	2	4	7	2.53	1.22	5.9
		World Series	2	2	4.2	0	1	12	10	4	3	3	19.29	3.21	5.8
2020 Post	HOU	Postseason total	4	3	24.0	3	1	14	5	3	10	26	1.88	1.00	9.8
		Wild Card	1	0	5.0	1	0	2	0	0	2	5	0.00	0.80	9.0
		ALDS	1	1	7.0	1	0	5	2	2	1	4	2.57	0.86	5.1
		ALCS	2	2	12.0	1	1	7	3	1	7	17	2.25	1.17	12.8
Career		Postseason total · 5 Octobers	17	16	85.0	7	6	82	41	14	34	95	4.34	1.36	10.1

Postseason batting

Postseason Framber Valdez's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2021 Post	HOU	World Series	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.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, 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	177	161	43	4	13	45	.267	.330	.385	.320	25.4%
vs RHB	581	510	127	12	54	90	.249	.333	.365	.316	15.5%

Pitch sequencing

What Framber Valdez throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.

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SinkerCurveballChangeupSliderFour-seam

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Pitch arsenal

What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.

Season


Sinker	43.8%	1,213	93.8	2,169	45.9%	10.3%	303	.314	.816
Curveball	29.8%	826	78.3	2,846	45.3%	31.8%	162	.179	.584
Changeup	18.0%	497	89.1	1,648	41.9%	21.7%	140	.250	.688
Slider	4.6%	127	85.7	2,415	43.3%	44.3%	38	.132	.412
Four-Seam Fastball	3.7%	103	94.8	2,193	39.8%	19.6%	28	.214	.567

Framber Valdez'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.