Earl Francis
Pittsburgh Pirates 1960–1964; St. Louis Cardinals 1965
Percentile snapshot
1962 season — qualified pitchers
of 68 qualified 1962 pitchers (min 161 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.5 |
| 1961 | 23 | 31 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 0 | .107 | .194 | .107 | .301 | -15.5 | -16.6 | .159 | 0.7 |
| 1962 | 36 | 65 | 61 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .164 | .177 | .262 | .440 | 8.0 | 17.1 | .197 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 34 | 26 | 26 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .308 | .308 | .423 | .731 | 109.0 | 109.0 | .328 | -0.3 |
| 1964 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1965 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 18.0 | 2.00 | 1.000 | 4.00 | 2.59 | 69.3 | 187.2 | 0.5 |
| 1961 | 23 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 48 | 47 | 53 | 4 | 102.7 | 4.21 | 1.529 | 4.65 | 3.54 | 88.8 | 94.8 | 0.7 |
| 1962 | 36 | 23 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 153 | 60 | 83 | 121 | 8 | 176.0 | 3.07 | 1.341 | 6.19 | 3.39 | 86.5 | 127.5 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 33 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 107 | 49 | 43 | 72 | 6 | 97.3 | 4.53 | 1.541 | 6.66 | 3.27 | 99.6 | 72.4 | -0.3 |
| 1964 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6.3 | 8.53 | 1.263 | 8.53 | 5.91 | 168.4 | 41.1 | -0.3 |
| 1965 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5.3 | 5.06 | 1.875 | 5.06 | 5.64 | 151.9 | 73.3 | 0.0 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-06-19 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1962-09-14 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1962-06-10 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1962-07-15 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1962-08-31 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-06-29 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 8.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| 1962-09-07 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 1962-07-04 | PIT @ HOU Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1962-04-28 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 8.2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
| 1962-09-18 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 8.1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.