Recently, a little debate stirred on the ol’ Internets when ESPN’s Keith Law cited Phillies outfielder Jeff Francoeur‘s negative WAR in response to a piece of trivia which painted the veteran in a positive light. Law isn’t wrong about Frenchy’s poor on-field value: Baseball Reference lists him with -0.3 WAR while FanGraphs has him at -0.2. That’s in line with his production over the previous two seasons, albeit in smaller sample sizes.
Francoeur has come to the plate 267 times, hitting for a mediocre .269 batting average and a terrible .296 on-base percentage.