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Kenshin Kawakami

Age: 35
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 200 lb
Number: #11

Born: June 22, 1975 in Tokushima, Japan
MLB debut: April 11, 2009

dbWAR: 2.3
IP: 87.1
ERA: 5.15
FIP: 4.35
K/9: 6.1
FIP−: 107

Kenshin Kawakami was a starting pitcher for the Atlanta Braves. In 2010 he struck out 59 batters over 87.1 innings across 18 appearances, 16 of them starts, going 1-10. His ERA of 5.15 was 26.3% higher than the league average of 4.08 — 13th of 15 on his team, and 374th of 467 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.35 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 18.4% of swings (8.3% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.2% of the batters he faced and struck out 15.1%. His 0.7 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, 2010 regular season.

FIP4.35

K/96.1

WHIP1.49

WAR.7

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																				Trend
2010	ATL	18	16	87.1	1	10	0	98	50	59	32	5.15	4.35	1.49	6.1	3.3	126	107	0.7
2009	ATL	32	25	156.1	7	12	1	153	67	105	57	3.86	4.21	1.34	6.0	3.3	89	97	1.7

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only.

																					Trend
2010	ATL	16	31	3	0	1	0	3	9	.125	.222	.167	.042	.200	9.7%	29.0%	.194	-3.2	9	0.1
2009	ATL	26	49	4	0	0	0	3	13	.098	.159	.098	.000	.143	6.1%	26.5%	.131	-8.0	-38	-0.2

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2010. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHB	178	157	47	4	16	23	.299	.358	.522	.376	12.9%
vs RHB	213	188	51	6	16	36	.271	.325	.463	.336	16.9%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2010.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2010.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .257.

Pitch sequencing

What Kenshin Kawakami 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.

Season


Four-Seam Fastball	29.4%	428	89.5	1,704	41.4%	14.8%	85	.329	.913
Sinker	24.2%	353	88.7	2,230	40.5%	9.7%	83	.373	1.058
Forkball	21.3%	311	83.8	1,178	44.4%	25.1%	93	.269	.797
Curveball	14.5%	212	71.7	1,467	42.0%	22.0%	50	.200	.585
Cutter	7.8%	113	86.5	921	44.2%	27.5%	34	.118	.294
Intentional Ball	2.3%	34	74.7	1,555	0.0%	—	0	—	—

Kenshin Kawakami's arsenal by usage. Velocity is average release speed in mph, spin in rpm, and whiff rate is misses per swing — the cleanest single measure of whether a pitch beats hitters. BAA and OPS are what hitters did against each pitch, credited to the one that ended the plate appearance, and are left blank under 15 at-bats.

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Nearest 2010 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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How these are computed

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.