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Ben Francisco

Age: 43

Birth Date: 1981 Oct 23

Birthplace: Santa Ana, CA, USA

Height: 6' 1"

Weight: 195 lb.

B/T: Right/Right

Season	G Games	PA Plate Appearances	WARP Wins Above Replacement Player	DRC+ Deserved Runs Created plus - Measures batter contributions, not just results. 100 is average. Higher is better, lower is worse.	SD± DRC+ Standard Deviation - Our measure of uncertainty surrounding a player’s DRC+	DRAA Deserved Runs Above Average - DRC+ converted to runs	BRR Base Running Runs - Measures the number of runs contributed by a player's advancement on the bases -- opportunity and park adjusted	DRP Deserved Runs Prevented - Total summary of all fielding contributions
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2015-05-24 : Rieleros de Aguascalientes released OF Ben Francisco.
2015-05-08 : Rieleros de Aguascalientes signed free agent OF Ben Francisco.
2015-03-15 : Arizona Diamondbacks released LF Ben Francisco.
2014-12-12 : Arizona Diamondbacks signed free agent LF Ben Francisco to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
2013-11-04 : OF Ben Francisco elected free agency.
2013-06-18 : San Diego Padres signed free agent LF Ben Francisco to a minor league contract.
2013-06-03 : New York Yankees released LF Ben Francisco.
2013-05-26 : New York Yankees designated LF Ben Francisco for assignment.
2013-03-29 : New York Yankees selected the contract of LF Ben Francisco from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
2013-03-11 : Cleveland Indians released LF Ben Francisco.
2013-03-11 : New York Yankees signed free agent LF Ben Francisco to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
2013-01-21 : Cleveland Indians signed free agent LF Ben Francisco to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
2012-11-30 : LF Ben Francisco elected free agency.
2012-08-31 : Houston Astros traded LF Ben Francisco to Tampa Bay Rays for Player To Be Named Later.
2012-07-20 : Houston Astros Traded RHP Brandon Lyon, LHP J.A. Happ and RHP David Carpenter to Toronto Blue Jays; Toronto Blue Jays Traded RHP Francisco Cordero and LF Ben Francisco to Houston Astros; Bluefield Blue Jays Traded RHP Joe Musgrove to Greeneville Astros; Dunedin Blue Jays Traded RHP Asher Wojciechowski to Corpus Christi Hooks; Lansing Lugnuts Traded LHP David Rollins to Lexington Legends and Lansing Lugnuts Traded C Carlos Perez to Lancaster JetHawks.
2011-12-12 : New Hampshire Fisher Cats Traded LHP Frank Gailey to Reading Phillies and Philadelphia Phillies Traded LF Ben Francisco to Toronto Blue Jays.
2009-07-29 : Cleveland Indians traded LF Ben Francisco to Philadelphia Phillies.

Date On When the player was placed on IL or injured	Date Off When the player was activated from IL or returned	Transaction Action taken by team	Days Total days missed by player	Games Approximate team games missed by player	Side The side of the body where the injury occurred	Body Part The part of the body where the injury occured	Injury A description of the injury
2012-08-27	2012-09-01	DTD	5	-	Right	Wrist	Soreness
2012-05-21	2012-06-24	15-DL	34	-	Left	Hamstring	Strain
2012-03-24	2012-04-02	Camp	9	-	Left	Hamstring	Strain
2011-03-08	2011-03-10	Camp	2	-	No Side	Cervical Spine	Soreness
2003-03-27	2003-06-01	Minors	66	-	Left	Wrist	Fracture - Hamate

1 year (2015). Signed by Arizona as a free agent 12/14 (minor-league contract). Released by Arizona 3/15/15.
2014: Independent league.
1 year/$1.1M (2013). Signed by Cleveland 1/21/13 (minor-league contract). Released by Cleveland 3/10/13. Signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 3/11/13 (minor-league contract). Salary of $1.1M in majors. Contract purchased by NY Yankees 3/29/13. DFA by NY Yankees 5/26/13. Released 6/3/13.
1 year/$1.5375M (2012). Signed by Toronto 1/17/12 (avoided arbitration). Acquired by Houston in trade from Toronto 7/20/12. Acquired by Tampa Bay in trade from Houston 8/31/12. Non-tendered by Tampa Bay 11/30/12.
1 year/$1.175M (2011). Re-signed by Philadelphia 1/15/11 (avoided arbitration). Acquired by Toronto in trade from Philadelphia 12/12/11.
1 year/$0.47M (2010). Re-signed by Philadelphia 2/10.
1 year/$0.4214M (2009). Re-signed by Cleveland 3/9/09 (split contract, $0.204M in minors). Acquired by Philadelphia in trade from Cleveland 7/29/09.
1 year/$0.39M (2008). Re-signed by Cleveland 3/7/08. Optioned to Triple-A 3/27/08. Recalled 4/22/08. Optioned to Triple-A 4/26/08. Recalled 5/6/08.
1 year/$0.38M (2007). Contract purchased by Cleveland 11/06. Re-signed by Cleveland 2/07. Optioned to Triple-A 3/07. Recalled 5/3/07. Optioned to Triple-A 5/07. Recalled 6/20/07. Optioned to Triple-A. Recalled 9/1/07.
Drafted by Cleveland 2002 (5-154) (UCLA).

Year Contract Year	Age Seasonal Age	Team Signing Team	Salary Salary or other detail	Service Time Accured service time
2009	27	CLE	$421,400	2.048
2010	28	PHI	$470,000	3.048
2011	29	PHI	$1,175,000	4.049
2012	30	TOR	$1,537,500	5.049
2013	31	NYA	$1,100,000	5.113
Total			$4,703,900	5.113

Year	Comments	Buy now
2013	Last season, Ben Francisco bounced from Toronto to Houston to Tampa Bay, which acquired him at the end of August to hit lefties. Instead, he hit .176 vs. southpaws, with a 590 OPS and 10 strikeouts in 38 plate appearances. Next.	Buy it now
2012	An injury to Domonic Brown forced Francisco into an everyday role. An increase in his walk rate helped him offset a sizable drop in power. He is a good bet to be just about average in every triple-slash category, which has to be worth something—especially off the bench. He was sent to Toronto for a minor-league reliever, where he’ll have a chance to fill in before an even more frustrating, late-arriving set of young hitters.
2011	Francisco killed lefties in 2010—the rap sheet reads .284/.344/.557—and yet he received more plate appearances against righties. The distribution of playing time was a mystery in large part because he was one of the team’s few threats against the sort of lefty relievers that repeatedly confront the Phillies late in games. There were plenty of situations in which starting Francisco against a left-handed pitcher or pinch-hitting him against a LOOGY was the obvious but unexecuted choice. A platoon of Francisco and Ibanez would be more productive than Ibanez alone.
2010	Francisco went almost unnoticed as the add-in to the Cliff Lee blockbuster, but he provided a valuable service to the Phillies as a right-handed bench bat on a team that leans to the left. Having had his chances to start and demonstrating a tweener\'s blend of a bat that is adequate for the corners and a glove that\'s no better than that in center, he should now settle in for a valuable stretch of quality fourth outfieldering.
2009	Francisco\'s solid performance in his first full big-league campaign was a pleasant development, but while the numbers Francisco put up looked brilliant in the light of Jason Michaels\' replacement-level stylings, the harsher sun of the American League revealed his bat to be just about average for the position. He\'s the initial default starter in left, with the Tribe hoping that a little age-27 lightning will strike.
2008	More of an organization player than anything else, Francisco was having the best season of his minor league career when he finally got the call and hit a game-winning home run in his major league debut. Then the Indians acquired Kenny Lofton and that was the end of that. In another organization, Francisco would have an opportunity to stick as an extra outfielder, but this is the wrong organization to be in if that's your ceiling, as there is a large group of guys already in line.
2007	Francisco is one of those college outfielders who do many things well, but nothing well enough to have a long big league career. Francisco split his time evenly between all three outfield positions in 2006, so when the Tribe needs an extra outfielder in 2007 because of a trade or a DL move, he could be the guy who gets the call.

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