P · 2019
Masahiro Tanaka
- Age
- 32
- B/T
- R/R
- Height
- 6' 2"
- Weight
- 214 lb
- Born
- November 1, 1988 in Itami, Japan
- MLB debut
- April 4, 2014
Age shown as of the 2020 season.
- dbWAR
- 10.9 11 season(s)
- PA
- 1
- AVG
- .000
- OBP
- .000
- SLG
- .000
- wRC+
- -126 100 = avg
Masahiro Tanaka is a pitcher for the New York Yankees. In 2019 he hit 0 home runs and knocked in 0 RBIs, notching 0 hits across 1 plate appearances in 1 game. His batting average was .000, 100.0% lower than the league average of .252. He reached base at a .000 clip and slugged .000, for an OPS of .000, 100.0% lower than the league mark of .758. He averaged 85.5 mph off the bat and made contact on 100.0% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his -126 wRC+ puts his offence 226% below average. That comes to -0.0 dbWAR — -0.3 runs with the bat, +0.0 on the bases, +0.0 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.
League context
Percentile among qualified batters, 2019.
How the WAR is built
Runs above replacement, 2019. These four terms sum to -0.2 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR.
WAR by season
Batting
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 0.0% | .000 | -0.3 | -126 | -0.0 | |
| 2018 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% | 16.7% | .000 | -1.5 | -116 | -0.1 | |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 66.7% | .000 | -0.8 | -121 | -0.1 | |
| 2016 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | — | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | -0.5 | -116 | -0.0 | |
| 2015 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .125 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 12.5% | 25.0% | .089 | -1.4 | -60 | -0.1 |
Pitching
Standard and advanced, by season.
| Trend | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | 10 | 48.0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 48 | 19 | 44 | 8 | 3.56 | 4.42 | 1.17 | 8.3 | 1.5 | 80 | 99 | 0.5 | |
| 2019 | 32 | 31 | 182.0 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 186 | 90 | 149 | 40 | 4.45 | 4.27 | 1.24 | 7.4 | 2.0 | 99 | 95 | 2.1 | |
| 2018 | 27 | 27 | 156.0 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 141 | 65 | 159 | 35 | 3.75 | 4.01 | 1.13 | 9.2 | 2.0 | 90 | 97 | 1.8 | |
| 2017 | 30 | 30 | 178.1 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 180 | 94 | 194 | 41 | 4.74 | 4.34 | 1.24 | 9.8 | 2.1 | 109 | 100 | 1.8 | |
| 2016 | 31 | 31 | 199.2 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 179 | 68 | 165 | 36 | 3.07 | 3.51 | 1.08 | 7.4 | 1.6 | 73 | 84 | 3.5 | |
| 2015 | 24 | 24 | 154.0 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 126 | 60 | 139 | 27 | 3.51 | 3.98 | 0.99 | 8.1 | 1.6 | 89 | 101 | 1.6 |
Platoon splits
How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs RHP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0.0% |
| Split | PA | AB | H | HR | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | K% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vs LHB | 381 | 354 | 101 | 15 | 25 | 65 | .285 | .331 | .508 | .351 | 17.1% |
| vs RHB | 378 | 359 | 85 | 13 | 15 | 84 | .237 | .270 | .393 | .281 | 22.2% |
Spray chart
Where every ball he put in play landed, 2019.
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Contact quality
How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 1 tracked batted balls in 2019. Percentiles are against qualified batters.
- Barrel rate
- 0.0% 0 barrels
- Exit velocity
- 85.5 mph average
- Max exit velo
- 85.5 mph, hardest hit
- Hard hit
- 0.0% 95 mph or better
- Sweet spot
- 0.0% 8–32° launch
- Launch angle
- -51.0° average
A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.
Hot and cold zones
Batting average by pitch location, 2019.
Situational hitting
How Masahiro Tanaka hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.
| Situation | PA | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Bases empty · thin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Rows under 25 plate appearances are marked thin — at that size a rate moves several dozen points on one hit. Counted from play-by-play, 2019.
Pitch sequencing
What Masahiro Tanaka 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, and how often it misses in 2019.
| Slider | 1,014 | 83.3 | 2,391 | 51.9% | 33.7% | |
| Four-Seam Fastball | 767 | 91.5 | 2,142 | 48.6% | 17.3% | |
| Splitter | 743 | 86.8 | 1,588 | 39.7% | 18.4% | |
| Sinker | 129 | 90.4 | 1,915 | 38.8% | 12.9% | |
| Curveball | 89 | 76.1 | 2,390 | 48.3% | 8.7% | |
| Cutter | 45 | 87.5 | 2,076 | 44.4% | 25.0% |
Head to head
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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.