MLB / Players

Hiroki Kuroda

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 205 lb

BornFebruary 10, 1975 · Osaka, Osaka, Japan

MLB debutApril 4, 2008

Final gameSeptember 25, 2014

Seasons7 (2008–2014)

Los Angeles Dodgers 2008–2011; New York Yankees 2012–2014

Percentile snapshot

2014 season — qualified pitchers

39.1

47.1

32.2

66.7

SHO

191

40.2

29.9

88.5

146

36.8

199.0

57.5

ERA

3.71

33.3

WHIP

1.136

75.9

K/9

6.60

29.9

FIP

3.63

51.7

FIP-

94.7

59.8

ERA+

103.5

44.8

sWAR

2.3

49.4

of 88 qualified 2014 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

115.2

82.9

sWAR

20.6

93.8

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2008	31	65	54	2	8	1	2	5	16	.148	.220	.167	.387	2.8	5.7	.191	2.8
2009	21	39	28	1	4	0	0	2	11	.143	.200	.143	.343	-11.2	-5.0	.170	1.5
2010	31	68	55	2	2	0	0	2	21	.036	.070	.036	.107	-86.2	-69.6	.058	2.7
2011	32	71	61	2	7	0	1	4	20	.115	.169	.115	.284	-28.1	-18.5	.143	3.4
2012	33	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.5	-100.0	.000	4.4
2013	32	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.8	-100.0	.000	3.6
2014	32	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.6	-100.0	.000	2.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2008	31	31	9	10	2	2	181	76	42	116	13	183.3	3.73	1.216	5.69	3.56	85.5	111.7	2.8
2009	21	20	8	7	0	0	110	49	24	87	12	117.3	3.76	1.142	6.67	3.54	88.4	106.7	1.5
2010	31	31	11	13	0	0	180	74	48	159	15	196.3	3.39	1.161	7.29	3.29	84.3	115.0	2.7
2011	32	32	13	16	0	0	196	69	49	161	24	202.0	3.07	1.213	7.17	3.75	101.1	120.5	3.4
2012	33	33	16	11	3	2	205	81	51	167	25	219.7	3.32	1.165	6.84	3.81	91.3	125.8	4.4
2013	32	32	11	13	1	1	191	74	43	150	20	201.3	3.31	1.162	6.71	3.59	89.9	120.8	3.6
2014	32	32	11	9	0	0	191	82	35	146	20	199.0	3.71	1.136	6.60	3.63	94.7	103.5	2.3

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

212

254

209

RBI

.1005

OBP

.1532

SLG

.1053

OPS

.2585

Pitching

G (P)

212

211

SHO

1,319

SO (P)

986

BB allowed

292

ERA

3.446

402nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1721

108th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.73

245th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	BB	TB
2008-09-20	SF @ LAD Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	2
2008-04-14	PIT @ LAD Gameday	2	0	1	1	1	0	2
2008-08-09	LAD @ SF Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	1
2011-08-30	SD @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	1
2008-05-01	LAD @ MIA Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2008-06-06	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	11	0
2012-10-14	DET @ NYY Gameday	7.2	5	3	3	0	11	0
2012-06-30	CWS @ NYY Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	1	11	0
2012-09-16	TB @ NYY Gameday	6.0	4	4	4	2	10	1
2009-06-23	LAD @ CWS Gameday	8.2	4	2	2	0	9	1

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.