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Yu Darvish

Age: 39
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 5"
Weight: 220 lb
Number: #11

Born: August 16, 1986 in Osaka, Japan
MLB debut: April 9, 2012
High school: Tohoku
Salary, 2025: $21M

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dbWAR: 32.5
IP: 72.0
ERA: 5.38
FIP: 4.82
K/9: 8.5
FIP−: 116

Yu Darvish was a starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2025 he struck out 68 batters over 72.0 innings across 15 appearances, 15 of them starts, going 5-5. His ERA of 5.38 was 29.3% higher than the league average of 4.16 — 16th of 18 on his team, and 441st of 542 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.82 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.0% of swings (10.8% of every pitch he threw), walked 6.4% of the batters he faced and struck out 23.0%. His 0.3 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, 2025 regular season.

FIP4.82

K/98.5

WHIP1.18

WAR.3

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2025	SD	15	15	72.0	5	5	66	43	68	19	5.38	4.82	1.18	8.5	2.4	129	116	0.3
2024	SD	16	16	81.2	7	3	65	30	78	22	3.31	4.08	1.07	8.6	2.4	81	100	1.0
2023	SD	24	24	136.1	8	10	134	69	141	43	4.56	4.03	1.30	9.3	2.8	105	93	2.1
2022	SD	30	30	194.2	16	8	148	67	197	37	3.10	3.31	0.95	9.1	1.7	78	83	3.6
2021	SD	30	30	166.1	8	11	138	78	199	44	4.22	3.90	1.09	10.8	2.4	99	92	2.7
2020	CHC	12	12	76.0	8	3	59	17	93	14	2.01	2.23	0.96	11.0	1.7	45	50	2.8
2019	CHC	31	31	178.2	6	8	140	79	229	56	3.98	4.18	1.10	11.5	2.8	88	93	2.7
2018	CHC	8	8	40.0	1	3	36	22	49	21	4.95	4.86	1.43	11.0	4.7	119	117	0.2
2017	TEX/LAD	31	31	186.2	10	12	159	80	209	58	3.86	3.83	1.16	10.1	2.8	89	88	3.6
2016	TEX	17	17	100.1	7	5	81	38	132	31	3.41	3.09	1.12	11.8	2.8	81	74	2.6
2014	TEX	22	22	144.1	10	7	133	49	182	49	3.06	2.84	1.26	11.3	3.1	82	76	3.3
2013	TEX	32	32	209.2	13	9	145	66	277	80	2.83	3.28	1.07	11.9	3.4	73	85	3.9
2012	TEX	29	29	191.1	16	9	156	83	221	89	3.90	3.29	1.28	10.4	4.2	97	82	4.1

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.


2021	SD	28	55	5	0	1	0	25	.094	.111	.132	.038	.179	0.0%	45.5%	.109	-9.6	-46	-0.1
2019	CHC	30	62	5	0	3	2	31	.089	.119	.089	.000	.192	3.2%	50.0%	.098	-11.9	-54	-0.2
2018	CHC	8	14	1	0	0	0	7	.083	.083	.167	.083	.200	0.0%	50.0%	.106	-2.4	-46	-0.0
2017	LAD	9	20	1	0	0	1	14	.059	.111	.059	.000	.333	5.0%	70.0%	.088	-3.9	-62	-0.1
2016	TEX	2	3	1	1	1	0	1	.333	.333	1.333	1.000	.000	0.0%	33.3%	.692	+0.9	335	0.1
2014	TEX	2	5	1	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.400	.200	.333	0.0%	40.0%	.259	-0.2	60	0.0
2013	TEX	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.7	-123	-0.0
2012	TEX	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	33.3%	.295	-0.1	80	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

Postseason Yu Darvish's postseason pitching, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	K/9
2025 Post	SD	Wild Card	1	1	1.0	0	1	4	2	0	0	1	18.00	4.00	9.0
2024 Post	SD	NLDS	2	2	13.2	1	1	6	3	2	3	7	1.98	0.66	4.6
2022 Post	SD	Postseason total	4	4	25.0	2	1	20	8	7	6	23	2.88	1.04	8.3
		Wild Card	1	1	7.0	1	0	6	1	1	0	4	1.29	0.86	5.1
		NLDS	1	1	5.0	1	0	7	3	3	2	7	5.40	1.80	12.6
		NLCS	2	2	13.0	0	1	7	4	3	4	12	2.77	0.85	8.3
2020 Post	CHC	Wild Card	1	1	6.2	0	1	5	2	1	2	6	2.70	1.05	8.1
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	4	4	14.2	2	2	17	10	4	3	14	6.14	1.36	8.6
		NLDS	1	1	5.0	1	0	2	1	1	0	7	1.80	0.40	12.6
		NLCS	1	1	6.1	1	0	6	1	1	1	7	1.42	1.11	9.9
		World Series	2	2	3.1	0	2	9	8	2	2	0	21.60	3.30	0.0
2016 Post	TEX	ALDS	1	1	5.0	0	1	5	5	4	1	4	9.00	1.20	7.2
2012 Post	TEX	Wild Card	1	1	6.2	0	1	5	2	0	0	7	2.70	0.75	9.4
Career		Postseason total · 7 Octobers	14	14	72.2	5	8	62	32	18	15	62	3.96	1.06	7.7

Postseason batting

Postseason Yu Darvish's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	2	6	4	1	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200
		NLDS	1	3	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
		NLCS	1	3	2	1	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333

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.

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2025. 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	155	136	36	8	15	28	.265	.351	.529	.378	18.1%
vs RHB	141	133	30	6	4	40	.226	.264	.398	.288	28.4%

Pitch sequencing

What Yu Darvish 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


Sinker	20.0%	232	93.4	2,273	47.4%	15.4%	56	.179	.624
Four-Seam Fastball	16.5%	191	93.9	2,370	51.8%	20.0%	39	.282	.787
Curveball	15.3%	177	71.1	2,507	44.1%	35.0%	50	.140	.484
Slider	13.8%	160	85.8	2,748	51.2%	17.6%	39	.385	.979
Cutter	11.7%	136	90.7	2,519	58.1%	17.5%	19	.316	1.245
Splitter	10.4%	121	86.3	1,134	35.5%	28.1%	33	.212	.538
Sweeper	10.1%	117	82.8	2,744	43.6%	35.2%	31	.323	1.215
Knuckle Curve	1.3%	15	78.6	2,551	20.0%	0.0%	3	—	—

Yu Darvish'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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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.