Players · K · Pitcher · 2026 regular season
Yusei Kikuchi
- Age
- 35
- B/T
- L/L
- Height
- 6' 0"
- Weight
- 210 lb
- Number
- #16
- Born
- June 17, 1991 in Morioka, Japan
- MLB debut
- March 21, 2019
- High school
- Hanamaki Higashi
- Salary, 2026
- $21.2M
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- dbWAR
- 9.9 Regular season, 10 season(s)
- IP
- 67.2
- ERA
- 4.92
- FIP
- 3.93
- K/9
- 8.9
- FIP−
- 94 100 = avg
Yusei Kikuchi is a starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels. In 2026 he struck out 67 batters over 67.2 innings across 14 appearances, 14 of them starts, going 1-7. His ERA of 4.92 was 17.7% higher than the league average of 4.18 — 14th of 22 on his team, and 393rd of 539 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 3.93 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 23.5% of swings (11.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 9.8% of the batters he faced and struck out 22.0%. His 0.9 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, 2026 regular season.
WAR by season
Pitching Regular season
Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below.
| Trend | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | LAA | 14 | 14 | 67.2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 74 | 37 | 67 | 30 | 4.92 | 3.93 | 1.54 | 8.9 | 4.0 | 118 | 94 | 0.9 | |
| 2025 | LAA | 33 | 33 | 178.1 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 180 | 79 | 174 | 74 | 3.99 | 4.23 | 1.42 | 8.8 | 3.7 | 96 | 102 | 2.1 | |
| 2024 | TOR/HOU | 32 | 32 | 175.2 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 167 | 79 | 206 | 44 | 4.05 | 3.46 | 1.20 | 10.6 | 2.3 | 99 | 85 | 3.5 | |
| 2023 | TOR | 32 | 32 | 167.2 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 165 | 72 | 181 | 48 | 3.86 | 4.12 | 1.27 | 9.7 | 2.6 | 89 | 95 | 2.3 | |
| 2022 | TOR | 32 | 20 | 100.2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 93 | 58 | 124 | 58 | 5.19 | 5.62 | 1.50 | 11.1 | 5.2 | 131 | 142 | -1.0 | |
| 2021 | SEA | 29 | 29 | 157.0 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 145 | 77 | 163 | 62 | 4.41 | 4.61 | 1.32 | 9.3 | 3.6 | 103 | 108 | 1.2 | |
| 2020 | SEA | 9 | 9 | 47.0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 41 | 27 | 47 | 20 | 5.17 | 3.30 | 1.30 | 9.0 | 3.8 | 116 | 74 | 1.2 | |
| 2019 | SEA | 32 | 32 | 161.2 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 195 | 98 | 116 | 50 | 5.46 | 5.71 | 1.52 | 6.5 | 2.8 | 121 | 127 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Post | TOR | Wild Card | 1 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5.40 | 2.40 | 0.0 |
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 | 82 | 72 | 22 | 1 | 8 | 19 | .306 | .378 | .431 | .360 | 23.2% |
| vs RHB | 223 | 194 | 52 | 6 | 22 | 48 | .268 | .341 | .454 | .344 | 21.5% |
Pitch sequencing
What Yusei Kikuchi 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 | 482 | 95.5 | 2,240 | 46.3% | 18.3% | 105 | .305 | .760 | |
| Slider | 303 | 87.4 | 2,388 | 51.8% | 25.5% | 74 | .297 | .891 | |
| Splitter | 209 | 86.6 | 1,596 | 40.7% | 33.0% | 47 | .191 | .681 | |
| Curveball | 136 | 79.9 | 2,574 | 45.6% | 21.2% | 29 | .207 | .564 | |
| Cutter | 72 | 90.5 | 2,293 | 50.0% | 31.3% | 11 | — | — |
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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.