Francisco Liriano

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 220 lb

BornOctober 26, 1983 · San Cristobal, San Cristóbal, D.R.

MLB debutSeptember 5, 2005

Final gameSeptember 27, 2019

Seasons14 (2005–2019)

Minnesota Twins 2005–2006; Minnesota Twins 2008–2011; Chicago White Sox 2012; Minnesota Twins 2012; Pittsburgh Pirates 2013–2016; Toronto Blue Jays 2016; Houston Astros 2017; Toronto Blue Jays 2017; Detroit Tigers 2018; Pittsburgh Pirates 2019

Percentile snapshot

2016 season — qualified pitchers

8.2

6.8

9.6

SHO

157

80.8

1.4

168

56.2

27.4

163.0

1.4

ERA

4.69

12.3

WHIP

1.485

4.1

K/9

9.28

83.6

FIP

4.90

9.6

FIP-

118.6

9.6

ERA+

88.2

16.4

sWAR

1.0

20.5

of 74 qualified 2016 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.5

31.4

sWAR

17.2

92.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2005	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
2006	28	7	5	0	1	0	0	1	1	3	.200	.333	.200	.533	56.7	45.1	.271	4.3
2008	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
2009	29	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.6	-100.0	.000	-0.7
2010	31	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.8	-100.0	.000	3.0
2011	26	3	2	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	.500	.667	.500	1.167	252.0	230.2	.541	-0.2
2012	34	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.0	-100.0	.000	-0.7
2013	26	56	47	0	3	0	0	1	4	18	.064	.137	.064	.201	-51.3	-40.1	.111	2.5
2014	29	52	45	1	5	0	0	0	2	14	.111	.149	.111	.260	-40.1	-24.5	.127	1.9
2015	31	67	65	4	11	2	1	7	0	28	.169	.169	.246	.415	-2.8	12.8	.181	3.1
2016	33	42	42	2	12	1	1	5	0	16	.286	.286	.381	.667	73.4	77.2	.290	1.0
2017	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
2018	27	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.5	-100.0	.000	1.0
2019	69	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	411.4	430.7	.794	1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2005	6	4	1	2	0	0	0	19	15	7	33	4	23.7	5.70	1.099	12.55	3.35	76.5	76.8	-0.1
2006	28	16	12	3	1	0	0	89	29	32	144	9	121.0	2.16	1.000	10.71	2.59	57.9	207.6	4.3
2008	14	14	6	4	0	0	0	74	33	32	67	7	76.0	3.91	1.395	7.93	3.90	91.7	108.8	1.1
2009	29	24	5	13	0	0	0	147	88	65	122	21	136.7	5.80	1.551	8.03	4.91	111.3	76.2	-0.7
2010	31	31	14	10	0	0	0	184	77	58	201	9	191.7	3.62	1.263	9.44	2.62	63.6	114.2	3.0
2011	26	24	9	10	0	1	1	125	76	75	112	14	134.3	5.09	1.489	7.50	4.58	113.2	79.5	-0.2
2012	34	28	6	12	0	0	0	143	93	87	167	19	156.7	5.34	1.468	9.59	4.29	104.2	77.1	-0.7
2013	26	26	16	8	0	2	0	134	54	63	163	9	161.0	3.02	1.224	9.11	2.90	81.2	118.1	2.5
2014	29	29	7	10	0	0	0	130	61	81	175	13	162.3	3.38	1.300	9.70	3.56	99.3	105.9	1.9
2015	31	31	12	7	0	0	0	155	70	70	205	15	186.7	3.38	1.205	9.88	3.22	83.0	114.8	3.1
2016	31	29	8	13	0	0	0	157	85	85	168	26	163.0	4.69	1.485	9.28	4.90	118.6	88.2	1.0
2017	38	18	6	7	0	0	0	105	61	53	85	11	97.0	5.66	1.629	7.89	4.63	106.3	76.8	-0.4
2018	27	26	5	12	0	0	0	127	68	73	110	19	133.7	4.58	1.496	7.41	5.15	117.4	95.8	1.0
2019	69	0	5	3	0	0	0	60	27	35	63	8	70.0	3.47	1.357	8.10	4.49	103.6	124.8	1.4

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

421

242

218

RBI

.1560

OBP

.1894

SLG

.1972

OPS

.3866

Pitching

G (P)

419

300

354th-most career GS

112

114

401st-most career L

SHO

1,814

SO (P)

1,815

127th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

816

239th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.153

WHIP

1.3591

K/9

9.01

35th-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	TB
2015-08-08	LAD @ PIT Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	3	4
2016-07-26	SEA @ PIT Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	4
2016-04-08	PIT @ CIN Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	1	3
2015-09-08	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3
2015-09-26	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2012-07-13	ATH @ MIN Gameday	8.0	4	4	3	1	15	1
2013-08-19	PIT @ SD Gameday	7.0	4	0	0	2	13	0
2016-07-21	MIL @ PIT Gameday	6.2	4	3	2	0	13	1
2006-07-02	MIL @ MIN Gameday	8.0	3	0	0	1	12	0
2006-07-28	DET @ MIN Gameday	8.0	3	2	2	3	12	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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.