Players · S · Pitcher · 2012 regular season
Takashi Saito
- Age
- 42
- B/T
- L/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 200 lb
- Number
- #44
- Born
- February 14, 1970 in Miyagi City, Japan
- MLB debut
- April 9, 2006
- dbWAR
- 7.7 Regular season, 9 season(s)
- IP
- 12.0
- ERA
- 6.75
- FIP
- 7.09
- K/9
- 8.3
- FIP−
- 177 100 = avg
Takashi Saito was a relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 2012 he struck out 11 batters over 12.0 innings across 16 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 6.75 was 68.1% higher than the league average of 4.01. Stripping out defence, his 7.09 FIP suggests that his ERA had some help behind him. He missed bats on 22.6% of swings (10.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.3% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.3%. His -0.4 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, 2012 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | AZ | 16 | 0 | 12.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 6.75 | 7.09 | 1.83 | 8.3 | 3.8 | 168 | 177 | -0.4 | |
| 2011 | MIL | 30 | 0 | 26.2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 23 | 9 | 2.02 | 3.40 | 1.13 | 7.8 | 3.0 | 51 | 86 | 0.3 | |
| 2010 | ATL | 56 | 0 | 54.0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 41 | 17 | 69 | 17 | 2.83 | 2.43 | 1.07 | 11.5 | 2.8 | 69 | 60 | 1.4 | |
| 2009 | BOS | 56 | 0 | 55.2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 50 | 15 | 52 | 25 | 2.43 | 4.25 | 1.35 | 8.4 | 4.0 | 56 | 98 | 0.4 | |
| 2008 | LAD | 45 | 0 | 47.0 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 40 | 13 | 60 | 16 | 2.49 | 2.00 | 1.19 | 11.5 | 3.1 | 58 | 46 | 1.5 | |
| 2007 | LAD | 63 | 0 | 64.1 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 33 | 10 | 78 | 13 | 1.40 | 2.57 | 0.72 | 10.9 | 1.8 | 31 | 57 | 1.8 | |
| 2006 | LAD | 72 | 0 | 78.1 | 6 | 2 | 24 | 48 | 18 | 107 | 23 | 2.07 | 1.87 | 0.91 | 12.3 | 2.6 | 46 | 41 | 2.8 |
Batting Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Post | MIL | Postseason total | 6 | 0 | 7.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.57 | 6.4 |
| NLDS | 3 | 0 | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 | 0.67 | 6.0 | ||
| NLCS | 3 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 6.8 | ||
| 2009 Post | BOS | ALDS | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 0.0 |
| 2008 Post | LAD | NLDS | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2006 Post | LAD | NLDS | 2 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 13.5 |
| Career | Postseason total · 4 Octobers | 10 | 0 | 10.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1.69 | 0.84 | 7.6 |
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 | 26 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 6 | .261 | .320 | .652 | .404 | 23.1% |
| vs RHB | 34 | 30 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | .367 | .441 | .733 | .500 | 14.7% |
Pitch sequencing
What Takashi Saito throws in each count, and what he follows each pitch with. Select any cell for the breakdown.
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Pitch arsenal
What he throws, how hard, how often it misses, and what hitters do with it.
| Four-Seam Fastball | 129 | 90.7 | 2,067 | 48.1% | 23.9% | 26 | .308 | 1.203 | |
| Slider | 44 | 80.6 | 1,232 | 40.9% | 27.3% | 13 | — | — | |
| Sinker | 34 | 89.4 | 2,011 | 35.3% | 5.9% | 7 | — | — | |
| Curveball | 27 | 75.9 | 1,448 | 51.9% | 33.3% | 7 | — | — |
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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.