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Kenta Maeda

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornApril 11, 1988 · Osaka, Osaka, Japan

MLB debutApril 6, 2016

Seasons9 (2016–2025)

Los Angeles Dodgers 2016–2019; Minnesota Twins 2020–2021; Minnesota Twins 2023; Detroit Tigers 2024–2025

Percentile snapshot

2020 season — qualified pitchers

2.6

5.1

76.9

94.9

SHO

97.4

79.5

92.3

64.1

25.6

66.7

30.8

ERA

2.70

79.5

WHIP

.750

100

K/9

10.80

69.2

FIP

2.97

76.9

FIP-

67.8

71.8

ERA+

162.2

76.9

sWAR

1.9

53.8

of 40 qualified 2020 pitchers (min 60 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.1

85.8

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2016	35	66	57	5	7	1	1	4	1	16	.123	.138	.193	.331	-23.8	-11.2	.146	2.8
2017	30	44	39	2	5	1	0	4	0	3	.128	.128	.154	.282	-39.2	-24.7	.123	1.2
2018	41	40	32	0	3	0	0	0	0	9	.094	.094	.094	.188	-66.1	-48.0	.084	1.3
2019	41	61	48	3	12	2	0	6	0	13	.250	.250	.292	.542	38.5	43.7	.234	2.2
2020	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
2021	23	4	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	85.2	87.1	.292	0.6
2023	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
2024	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.6
2025	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2016	32	32	16	11	0	150	68	50	179	20	175.7	3.48	1.139	9.17	3.62	90.1	115.3	2.8
2017	29	25	13	6	1	121	63	34	140	22	134.3	4.22	1.154	9.38	4.09	98.5	98.4	1.2
2018	39	20	8	10	2	115	53	43	153	13	125.3	3.81	1.261	10.99	3.18	81.5	102.5	1.3
2019	37	26	10	8	3	114	69	51	169	22	153.7	4.04	1.074	9.90	3.91	92.3	104.8	2.2
2020	11	11	6	1	0	40	20	10	80	9	66.7	2.70	.750	10.80	2.97	67.8	162.2	1.9
2021	21	21	6	5	0	106	55	32	113	16	106.3	4.66	1.298	9.56	4.14	97.4	91.3	0.6
2023	21	20	6	8	0	94	49	28	117	17	104.3	4.23	1.169	10.09	4.02	95.5	99.5	1.0
2024	29	17	3	7	0	124	76	31	96	22	112.3	6.09	1.380	7.69	4.89	121.7	66.0	-1.6
2025	7	0	0	0	0	9	7	6	8	1	8.0	7.88	1.875	9.00	6.05	146.6	52.4	-0.3

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

238

215

179

RBI

.1564

OBP

.1611

SLG

.1955

OPS

.3566

Pitching

G (P)

226

172

SHO

987

SO (P)

1,055

BB allowed

285

ERA

4.196

WHIP

1.1736

K/9

9.62

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
2016-04-06	LAD @ SD Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
2019-05-15	SD @ LAD Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2	2
2017-06-18	LAD @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	2	2
2016-08-09	PHI @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	0	2
2019-03-30	AZ @ LAD Gameday	2	2	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2016-07-10	SD @ LAD Gameday	7.0	2	1	1	0	13	1
2020-08-18	MIL @ MIN Gameday	8.0	1	1	1	2	12	0
2018-05-23	COL @ LAD Gameday	6.2	2	0	0	4	12	0
2019-05-15	SD @ LAD Gameday	6.2	3	0	0	0	12	0
2021-07-04	MIN @ KC Gameday	6.0	2	0	0	1	10	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.