Maikel Franco’s 2017 season can best be described with a number of different words, none of them flattering.
Disastrous. Horrendous. Disappointing. Substandard. Awful. Brutal. And I did all that without a thesaurus and all of the swear words.
Franco was hitting coach Matt Stairs’ toughest project in 2017, and the results weren’t there for most of the season. In 623 plate appearances, he hit a meager .230/.281/.409 with a wRC+ of 76 (100 being considered a league-average run producer) and a wOBA of .292.
That’s a bad year, gang.
Among 144 Major Leaguers who had enough at-bats to qualify for the batting title, Franco’s -0.