Players · D · Pitcher · 2025
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
- dbWAR
- 21.1 15 season(s)
- IP
- 72.0
- ERA
- 5.38
- FIP
- 4.82
- K/9
- 8.5
- FIP−
- 116 100 = avg
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.
WAR by season
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | SD | 15 | 15 | 72.0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 81 | 38 | 132 | 31 | 3.41 | 3.09 | 1.12 | 11.8 | 2.8 | 81 | 74 | 2.6 |
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | SD | 28 | 55 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | .094 | .111 | .132 | .038 | .179 | 0.0% | 45.5% | .109 | -9.6 | -46 | -0.1 | |
| 2019 | CHC | 30 | 62 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 7 | .083 | .083 | .167 | .083 | .200 | 0.0% | 50.0% | .106 | -2.4 | -46 | -0.0 | |
| 2017 | LAD | 9 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | 1.333 | 1.000 | .000 | 0.0% | 33.3% | .692 | +0.9 | 335 | 0.1 |
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 | 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.
| Sinker | 232 | 93.4 | 2,273 | 47.4% | 15.4% | 56 | .179 | .624 | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 191 | 93.9 | 2,370 | 51.8% | 20.0% | 39 | .282 | .787 | |
| Curveball | 177 | 71.1 | 2,507 | 44.1% | 35.0% | 50 | .140 | .484 | |
| Slider | 160 | 85.8 | 2,748 | 51.2% | 17.6% | 39 | .385 | .979 | |
| Cutter | 136 | 90.7 | 2,519 | 58.1% | 17.5% | 19 | .316 | 1.245 | |
| Splitter | 121 | 86.3 | 1,134 | 35.5% | 28.1% | 33 | .212 | .538 | |
| Sweeper | 117 | 82.8 | 2,744 | 43.6% | 35.2% | 31 | .323 | 1.215 | |
| Knuckle Curve | 15 | 78.6 | 2,551 | 20.0% | 0.0% | 3 | — | — |
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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.