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Kenta Maeda

Age: 37
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 185 lb

Born: April 11, 1988 in Osaka, Japan
MLB debut: April 6, 2016
High school: PL Gakuen
Salary, 2025: $10M

dbWAR: 14.7
IP: 8.0
ERA: 7.88
FIP: 6.14
K/9: 9.0
FIP−: 148

Kenta Maeda was a relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. In 2025 he struck out 8 batters over 8.0 innings across 7 appearances, going 0-0. His ERA of 7.88 was 89.4% higher than the league average of 4.16. Stripping out defence, his 6.14 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 28.2% of swings (12.9% of every pitch he threw), walked 14.0% of the batters he faced and struck out 18.6%. His -0.1 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.

FIP6.14

K/99.0

WHIP1.88

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching Regular season

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


2025	DET	7	0	8.0	0	0	0	9	7	8	6	7.88	6.14	1.88	9.0	6.8	189	148	-0.1
2024	DET	29	17	112.1	3	7	0	124	76	96	31	6.09	4.96	1.38	7.7	2.5	149	122	-0.1
2023	MIN	21	20	104.1	6	8	0	94	49	117	28	4.23	4.02	1.17	10.1	2.4	98	93	1.6
2021	MIN	21	21	106.1	6	5	0	106	55	113	32	4.66	4.10	1.30	9.6	2.7	109	96	1.5
2020	MIN	11	11	66.2	6	1	0	40	20	80	10	2.70	3.00	0.75	10.8	1.3	61	67	1.9
2019	LAD	37	26	153.2	10	8	3	114	69	169	51	4.04	3.95	1.07	9.9	3.0	90	88	2.4
2018	LAD	39	20	125.1	8	10	2	115	53	153	43	3.81	3.22	1.26	11.0	3.1	92	78	2.4
2017	LAD	29	25	134.1	13	6	1	121	63	140	34	4.22	4.07	1.15	9.4	2.3	97	93	1.9
2016	LAD	32	32	175.2	16	11	0	150	68	179	50	3.48	3.58	1.14	9.2	2.6	83	85	3.1

Batting Regular season

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


2021	MIN	3	4	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.000	.500	0.0%	25.0%	.292	-0.1	83	0.1
2019	LAD	30	61	12	0	6	0	13	.250	.250	.292	.042	.343	0.0%	21.3%	.232	-4.7	40	0.4
2018	LAD	20	40	3	0	0	0	9	.094	.094	.094	.000	.130	0.0%	22.5%	.082	-7.6	-66	-0.2
2017	LAD	26	44	5	0	4	0	3	.128	.128	.154	.026	.139	0.0%	6.8%	.122	-7.4	-39	-0.1
2016	LAD	33	66	7	1	4	1	16	.123	.138	.193	.070	.150	1.5%	24.2%	.145	-9.3	-20	-0.1

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 Kenta Maeda'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
2023 Post	MIN	ALDS	2	0	4.0	0	0	6	3	0	3	4	6.75	2.25	9.0
2020 Post	MIN	Wild Card	1	1	5.0	0	0	2	0	0	3	5	0.00	1.00	9.0
2019 Post	LAD	NLDS	4	0	4.2	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	0.00	0.21	13.5
2018 Post	LAD	Postseason total	8	0	6.2	0	0	9	3	0	3	10	4.05	1.80	13.5
		NLDS	1	0	1.0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0.00	2.00	9.0
		NLCS	4	0	2.2	0	0	3	2	0	1	3	6.75	1.50	10.1
		World Series	3	0	3.0	0	0	4	1	0	2	6	3.00	2.00	18.0
2017 Post	LAD	Postseason total	9	0	10.2	2	0	5	1	1	2	10	0.84	0.66	8.4
		NLDS	2	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0.00	0.00	18.0
		NLCS	3	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.00	0.00	9.0
		World Series	4	0	5.2	0	0	5	1	1	2	3	1.59	1.24	4.8
2016 Post	LAD	Postseason total	3	3	10.2	0	1	12	8	1	7	12	6.75	1.78	10.1
		NLDS	1	1	3.0	0	1	5	4	1	2	4	12.00	2.33	12.0
		NLCS	2	2	7.2	0	0	7	4	0	5	8	4.70	1.57	9.4
Career		Postseason total · 6 Octobers	27	4	41.2	2	1	35	15	2	18	48	3.24	1.27	10.4

Postseason batting

Postseason Kenta Maeda's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	H	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2017 Post	LAD	NLDS	1	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
2016 Post	LAD	NLCS	2	2	2	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000
Career		Postseason total · 2 Octobers	3	3	3	1	.333	.333	.333	.667

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	16	14	4	1	2	4	.286	.375	.571	.405	25.0%
vs RHB	27	19	5	0	4	4	.263	.462	.368	.395	14.8%

Pitch sequencing

What Kenta Maeda 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


Splitter	36.3%	62	84.5	1,429	32.3%	21.7%	10	—	—
Four-Seam Fastball	18.1%	31	90.2	2,216	45.2%	17.6%	6	—	—
Sweeper	17.5%	30	80.1	2,598	60.0%	44.4%	10	—	—
Slider	17.5%	30	81.4	2,561	53.3%	41.7%	1	—	—
Sinker	8.2%	14	90.0	2,250	50.0%	20.0%	3	—	—

Kenta Maeda'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.