Franklyn German
Detroit Tigers 2002–2005; Florida Marlins 2006; Texas Rangers 2008
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 2003 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 2004 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -117.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 2005 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
| 2008 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 6.7 | 0.00 | .750 | 8.10 | 2.61 | 61.4 | — | 0.4 |
| 2003 | 45 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 30 | 45 | 41 | 5 | 44.7 | 6.04 | 2.060 | 8.26 | 5.87 | 134.7 | 72.1 | -0.4 |
| 2004 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 14.7 | 7.36 | 1.909 | 4.91 | 7.86 | 174.7 | 61.1 | -0.3 |
| 2005 | 58 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 24 | 34 | 38 | 7 | 59.0 | 3.66 | 1.644 | 5.80 | 5.39 | 125.8 | 117.1 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 12.0 | 3.00 | 1.750 | 4.50 | 6.94 | 157.5 | 147.0 | 0.3 |
| 2008 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 21.7 | 2.08 | 1.431 | 6.23 | 3.58 | 80.3 | 214.4 | 0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-06-03 | DET @ SD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003-06-04 | DET @ SD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003-06-08 | DET @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003-06-20 | DET @ COL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004-06-20 | DET @ NYM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-04-18 | DET @ KC Gameday | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2003-04-22 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 2005-05-21 | AZ @ DET Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2008-05-08 | TEX @ SEA Gameday | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2003-04-12 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 1.1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 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.