MLB / Players

Daisuke Matsuzaka

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 205 lb

BornSeptember 13, 1980 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

MLB debutApril 5, 2007

Final gameSeptember 25, 2014

Seasons8 (2007–2014)

Boston Red Sox 2007–2012; New York Mets 2013–2014

Percentile snapshot

2008 season — qualified pitchers

4.6

9.2

93.1

98.9

SHO

128

100

3.4

154

59.8

93.1

167.7

5.7

ERA

2.90

93.1

WHIP

1.324

47.1

K/9

8.27

86.2

FIP

4.06

51.7

FIP-

90.0

60.9

ERA+

155.8

95.4

sWAR

4.7

88.5

of 88 qualified 2008 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.7

82.5

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	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2007	32	4	4	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.5	-100.0	.000	2.6
2008	29	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.7	-100.0	.000	4.7
2009	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.3	-100.0	.000	-0.2
2010	25	5	4	2	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	182.2	170.1	.452	0.9
2011	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
2012	11	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.0	-100.0	.000	-1.7
2013	7	13	12	3	1	0	5	.250	.250	.250	.500	34.0	43.6	.226	0.0
2014	34	17	11	2	1	1	6	.182	.250	.182	.432	25.1	27.4	.212	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2007	32	32	15	12	0	1	191	100	80	201	25	204.7	4.40	1.324	8.84	4.30	92.1	106.1	2.6
2008	29	29	18	3	0	0	128	54	94	154	12	167.7	2.90	1.324	8.27	4.06	90.0	155.8	4.7
2009	12	12	4	6	0	0	81	38	30	54	10	59.3	5.76	1.871	8.19	5.13	111.9	79.5	-0.2
2010	25	25	9	6	0	0	137	80	74	133	13	153.7	4.69	1.373	7.79	4.02	93.5	91.7	0.9
2011	8	7	3	3	0	0	32	22	23	26	4	37.3	5.30	1.473	6.27	4.99	115.9	81.2	-0.1
2012	11	11	1	7	0	0	58	42	20	41	11	45.7	8.28	1.708	8.08	5.89	139.1	51.2	-1.7
2013	7	7	3	3	0	0	32	19	16	33	4	38.7	4.42	1.241	7.68	4.29	120.9	80.2	0.0
2014	34	9	3	3	1	0	62	36	50	78	6	83.3	3.89	1.344	8.42	4.18	120.3	89.4	0.4

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

158

RBI

.1892

OBP

.2105

SLG

.1892

OPS

.3997

Pitching

G (P)

158

132

SHO

790

SO (P)

720

BB allowed

387

ERA

4.453

WHIP

1.4019

K/9

8.20

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	H	RBI	TB
2007-10-27	BOS @ COL Gameday	3	1	2	1
2010-06-24	BOS @ COL Gameday	2	1	1	1
2013-09-02	NYM @ ATL Gameday	1	1	1	1
2014-05-25	AZ @ NYM Gameday	1	1	1	1
2010-05-22	BOS @ PHI Gameday	2	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2007-04-05	BOS @ KC Gameday	7.0	6	1	1	1	10	1
2007-08-04	BOS @ SEA Gameday	7.0	6	2	2	2	10	2
2007-04-17	BOS @ TOR Gameday	6.0	3	2	2	3	10	0
2014-07-12	MIA @ NYM Gameday	6.0	4	4	4	4	10	1
2007-07-03	TB @ BOS Gameday	8.0	4	0	0	1	9	0

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.