MLB / Players

Akinori Iwamura

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 200 lb

BornFebruary 9, 1979 · Uwajima, Ehime, Japan

MLB debutApril 2, 2007

Final gameSeptember 26, 2010

Seasons4 (2007–2010)

Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2007; Tampa Bay Rays 2008–2009; Oakland Athletics 2010; Pittsburgh Pirates 2010

Percentile snapshot

2008 season — qualified batters

152

59.9

707

93.2

627

92.5

66.7

172

72.1

40.1

96.6

4.8

RBI

10.9

70.7

131

14.3

57.1

17.7

.274

40.1

OBP

.349

48.3

SLG

.380

12.2

OPS

.729

16.3

wRC+

99.1

29.9

OPS+

96.5

27.9

wOBA

.331

24.5

sWAR

2.6

44.9

of 148 qualified 2008 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.8

sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2007	123	559	491	82	140	21	10	7	34	58	114	12	8	.285	.359	.411	.770	107.8	104.8	.348	2.6
2008	152	707	627	91	172	30	9	6	48	70	131	8	6	.274	.349	.380	.729	99.1	96.5	.331	2.6
2009	69	260	231	28	67	16	2	1	22	24	44	9	1	.290	.355	.390	.745	102.2	99.8	.335	1.1
2010	64	229	196	21	34	7	1	2	13	31	41	3	1	.173	.285	.250	.535	50.6	46.6	.260	-0.5

Career totals

408

1,755

1,545

222

413

RBI

117

183

330

.2673

OBP

.3448

SLG

.3748

OPS

.7196

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
2007-04-06	TOR @ TB Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	1	7
2007-06-19	TB @ AZ Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	2	7
2008-06-24	TB @ MIA Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	2	7
2007-09-03	BAL @ TB Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	6
2007-06-23	LAD @ TB Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	1	6

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.