Julio Franco

2013 Hall of Fame Ballot Series: Julio Franco

The first table below presents Julio Franco's career as measured by Player won-lost records.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Julio Franco Basic Player Won-Lost Records
												Value Decomposition
1982	PHI	23	16	1.0	1.0	0.504	0.0	0.1	0.9	1.0	0.475	-0.0	0.0
1983	CLE	24	149	17.9	20.1	0.472	-0.5	0.8	17.9	20.0	0.473	-0.5	0.9
1984	CLE	25	160	21.0	22.9	0.478	0.2	1.9	20.7	23.2	0.471	-0.1	1.5
1985	CLE	26	160	19.4	23.6	0.452	-1.1	0.5	20.4	22.6	0.475	-0.2	1.5
1986	CLE	27	148	18.1	19.0	0.488	0.3	1.7	18.1	19.1	0.486	0.2	1.6
1987	CLE	28	128	15.4	16.2	0.489	0.2	1.5	16.2	15.4	0.512	1.0	2.3
1988	CLE	29	152	20.3	20.7	0.495	0.2	1.8	20.6	20.4	0.502	0.5	2.1
1989	TEX	30	150	20.7	18.5	0.529	1.2	2.7	20.7	18.4	0.529	1.2	2.7
1990	TEX	31	157	20.9	18.4	0.531	1.5	3.0	20.8	18.6	0.528	1.4	2.8
1991	TEX	32	146	19.9	17.7	0.529	1.1	2.6	20.2	17.4	0.538	1.5	2.9
1992	TEX	33	35	2.0	2.9	0.401	-0.5	-0.3	2.2	2.7	0.455	-0.2	-0.0
1993	TEX	34	144	13.1	11.7	0.529	0.6	2.1	13.0	11.8	0.524	0.4	2.0
1994	CHA	35	112	12.8	9.4	0.577	1.3	2.6	12.3	9.8	0.558	0.9	2.2
1996	CLE	37	112	13.0	10.2	0.562	1.0	2.0	12.4	10.8	0.535	0.4	1.4
+– 1997		38	120	10.9	11.0	0.499	-0.1	1.0	10.8	11.1	0.494	-0.3	0.9
	CLE		78	7.4	7.6	0.493	-0.1	0.6	7.2	7.7	0.484	-0.2	0.5
	MIL		42	3.6	3.4	0.513	-0.0	0.3	3.6	3.4	0.514	-0.0	0.4
1999	TBA	40	1	0.0	0.0	0.000	-0.0	-0.0	0.0	0.0	0.000	-0.0	-0.0
2001	ATL	42	25	2.3	2.2	0.515	-0.1	0.1	2.4	2.1	0.528	-0.0	0.2
2002	ATL	43	125	8.7	7.7	0.530	0.1	0.8	8.2	8.2	0.498	-0.4	0.3
2003	ATL	44	103	5.2	4.5	0.534	0.1	0.5	5.1	4.6	0.525	0.0	0.5
2004	ATL	45	125	9.5	7.9	0.548	0.5	1.3	8.8	8.6	0.506	-0.2	0.5
2005	ATL	46	108	6.3	5.7	0.525	0.1	0.6	6.0	5.9	0.505	-0.1	0.4
2006	NYN	47	95	4.3	3.6	0.547	0.3	0.7	3.5	4.3	0.451	-0.4	-0.1
+– 2007		48	55	2.0	2.2	0.475	-0.1	0.1	2.0	2.1	0.493	-0.0	0.1
	ATL		15	0.7	0.9	0.421	-0.2	-0.1	0.8	0.8	0.511	-0.0	0.1
	NYN		40	1.3	1.2	0.509	0.0	0.2	1.2	1.3	0.481	-0.0	0.1
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CAREER (reg. season)			2,526	264.8	256.8	0.508	6.4	28.0	263.4	258.2	0.505	5.0	26.7
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PostSeason (career)			31	1.7	2.7	0.393		-0.4	2.1	2.5	0.459		-0.1
			------	------	------	------		------	------	------	------		------
COMBINED			2,557	266.5	259.5	0.508		27.7	265.5	260.7	0.505		26.6

There are 23 members of the Hall of Fame who made their major-league debut after Julio Franco. Yet, this is Franco's first year on the ballot.

This is because Julio Franco played until he was 48 years old. The next table shows every player who earned at least 30 pWins from age 43 onward. (Yes, age 43 is somewhat arbitrary here, but Franco actually only played 26 major-league games from ages 40 - 42, and playing into your early 40's isn't all that unusual.)

Player	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Players with 30 or more pWins from age 43 on (sorted by pWORL)
Jack Quinn	221	46.5	42.1	0.525	3.1	7.7
Phil Niekro	194	72.0	73.2	0.496	0.3	7.0
Nolan Ryan	97	36.4	32.1	0.532	2.2	5.6
Jamie Moyer	159	56.2	63.5	0.469	-2.0	4.0
Julio Franco	611	35.9	31.5	0.533	1.1	4.0
Charlie Hough	113	39.5	45.3	0.466	-2.3	1.9

And if we exclude pitchers and drop it to 10 pWins:

Player	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Non-Pitchers with 10 or more pWins from age 43 on (sorted by pWORL)
Julio Franco	611	35.9	31.5	0.533	1.1	4.0
Carlton Fisk	221	18.2	18.8	0.492	0.3	1.8
Pete Rose Sr.	312	28.1	27.6	0.504	-1.0	1.1
Tony Perez	148	11.2	9.9	0.530	0.2	1.0
Omar Vizquel	226	18.1	20.5	0.469	-1.0	0.4

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