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Akinori Otsuka
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #40
- Born
- January 13, 1972 in Chiba, Japan
- MLB debut
- April 6, 2004
- dbWAR
- 3.2 Regular season, 2005–2007 only
- IP
- 32.1
- ERA
- 2.51
- FIP
- 2.65
- K/9
- 6.4
- FIP−
- 59 100 = avg
Akinori Otsuka was a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. In 2007 he struck out 23 batters over 32.1 innings across 34 appearances, going 2-1. His ERA of 2.51 was 44.0% lower than the league average of 4.47 — the best on his team, and 37th of 484 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 2.65 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 20.7% of swings (9.6% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.9% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.6%. His 0.8 dbWAR is built from that FIP rather than runs allowed, so it credits him for what he controls and not for the defence behind him.
League context
Percentile among qualified pitchers, 2007 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2007; his career began in 2004, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | SD | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -133 | -0.0 | — |
Separate from the regular season
Postseason Postseason
Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.
Postseason pitching
| Season | Team | Round | G | GS | IP | W | L | SV | H | ER | HR | BB | SO | ERA | WHIP | K/9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 Post | SD | NLDS | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.67 | 0.0 |
Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.
Platoon splits
How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 66 | 59 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 14 | .169 | .242 | .186 | .200 | 21.2% |
| vs RHB | 67 | 61 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 9 | .262 | .303 | .361 | .298 | 13.4% |
Not in the 2007 data: pitch types, recorded in every park from 2008. The play-by-play goes back to 2005, but the measurements on each pitch and batted ball arrived later, so the panels built from them are left off this season.
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Nearest 2007 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.
wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.