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Kazuhisa Makita

Age: 34
B/T: R/R
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 181 lb

Born: November 10, 1984 in Yaizu, Japan
MLB debut: March 30, 2018

dbWAR: -.1
IP: 35.0
ERA: 5.40
FIP: 4.85
K/9: 9.5
FIP−: 117

Kazuhisa Makita was a relief pitcher for the San Diego Padres. In 2018 he struck out 37 batters over 35.0 innings across 27 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 5.40 was 30.1% higher than the league average of 4.15 — 15th of 20 on his team, and 428th of 530 among MLB pitchers with 20+ innings. Stripping out defence, his 4.85 FIP suggests he pitched better than his ERA shows. He missed bats on 27.4% of swings (13.4% of every pitch he threw), walked 8.1% of the batters he faced and struck out 24.8%. 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, 2018.

FIP4.85

K/99.5

WHIP1.26

WAR-.1

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.

																				Trend
2018	SD	27	0	35.0	0	1	0	32	21	37	12	5.40	4.85	1.26	9.5	3.1	130	117	-0.1	—

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2018	SD	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	66.7%	.000	-0.8	-119	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

How left- and right-handed hitters fare against him.

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2018. 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	74	62	17	4	10	19	.274	.384	.532	.388	25.7%
vs RHB	75	71	15	3	2	18	.211	.243	.366	.265	24.0%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2018.

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Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2018.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .247.

Pitch sequencing

What Kazuhisa Makita 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	50.5%	294	80.6	2,021	55.1%	29.9%	75	.227	.742
Unknown	20.6%	120	—	—	51.7%	28.6%	27	.185	.661
Slider	13.6%	79	70.0	2,020	38.0%	19.4%	19	.263	.754
Sinker	9.1%	53	78.9	1,919	49.1%	21.4%	10	—	—
Curveball	4.0%	23	59.4	1,752	52.2%	25.0%	1	—	—
Changeup	2.1%	12	70.5	1,507	8.3%	0.0%	1	—	—

Kazuhisa Makita'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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Nearest 2018 seasons by command, run prevention and role, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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ERA: 5.26
FIP: 4.69
SO: 78
WAR: -0.0

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ERA: 5.12
FIP: 4.61
SO: 65
WAR: 0.0

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ERA: 4.54
FIP: 4.52
SO: 95
WAR: 0.1

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Emilio PagánOAK

ERA: 4.35
FIP: 4.92
SO: 63
WAR: -0.3

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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.