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Yoshihisa Hirano

Age: 36
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 185 lb

Born: March 8, 1984 in Uji, Kyoto, Japan
MLB debut: March 29, 2018

dbWAR: 1.3
IP: 12.1
ERA: 5.84
FIP: 5.70
K/9: 8.0
FIP−: 128

Yoshihisa Hirano was a relief pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. In 2020 he struck out 11 batters over 12.1 innings across 13 appearances, going 0-1. His ERA of 5.84 was 31.1% higher than the league average of 4.45. Stripping out defence, his 5.70 FIP suggests the ERA was no fluke. He missed bats on 26.7% of swings (12.5% of every pitch he threw), walked 12.7% of the batters he faced and struck out 17.5%. 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, 2020.

FIP5.70

K/98.0

WHIP2.11

WAR-.1

WAR by season

Pitching

Standard and advanced, by season.


2020	SEA	13	12.1	0	1	4	18	8	11	8	5.84	5.70	2.11	8.0	5.8	131	128	-0.1
2019	AZ	62	53.0	5	5	1	51	28	61	22	4.75	4.04	1.38	10.4	3.7	106	90	0.6
2018	AZ	75	66.1	4	3	3	49	18	59	23	2.44	3.69	1.09	8.0	3.1	59	89	0.8

Batting

Standard and advanced, by season.

																					Trend
2018	AZ	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0%	0.0%	.000	-0.3	-118	-0.0	—

Platoon splits

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

Season

Opponent batting by the side the hitter bats from, 2020. 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	33	30	9	2	3	5	.300	.364	.533	.383	15.2%
vs RHB	30	23	9	0	5	6	.391	.500	.478	.434	20.0%

Pitch sequencing

What Yoshihisa Hirano 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	54.4%	135	82.1	1,146	39.3%	29.0%	36	.306	.810
Four-Seam Fastball	45.2%	112	89.9	2,117	47.3%	21.7%	17	.412	1.193

Yoshihisa Hirano'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.