MLB / Players

Masahiro Tanaka

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 218 lb

BornNovember 1, 1988 · Itami, Hyogo, Japan

MLB debutApril 4, 2014

Final gameSeptember 23, 2020

Seasons7 (2014–2020)

New York Yankees 2014–2020

Percentile snapshot

2019 season — qualified pitchers

23.3

26.7

66.7

SHO

186

26.7

16.7

83.3

149

182.0

48.3

ERA

4.45

18.3

WHIP

1.242

46.7

K/9

7.37

23.3

FIP

4.31

FIP-

94.2

43.3

ERA+

102.8

sWAR

2.0

23.3

of 61 qualified 2019 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.6

79.7

sWAR

16.6

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	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2014	20	9	9	0	1	0	5	.111	.111	.111	.222	-56.3	-36.6	.100	3.1
2015	24	8	7	0	0	1	2	.000	.125	.000	.125	-62.3	-60.7	.090	2.4
2016	31	2	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.0	-100.0	.000	4.7
2017	30	3	2	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.9	-100.0	.000	1.2
2018	27	6	6	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.5	-100.0	.000	2.3
2019	32	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.3	-100.0	.000	2.0
2020	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2014	20	20	13	5	3	1	123	42	21	141	15	136.3	2.77	1.056	9.31	3.07	80.1	138.4	3.1
2015	24	24	12	7	1	0	126	60	27	139	25	154.0	3.51	.994	8.12	3.96	98.7	114.3	2.4
2016	31	31	14	4	0	0	179	68	36	165	22	199.7	3.07	1.077	7.44	3.47	82.0	138.2	4.7
2017	30	30	13	12	1	1	180	94	41	194	35	178.3	4.74	1.239	9.79	4.32	97.0	94.0	1.2
2018	27	27	12	6	1	1	141	65	35	159	25	156.0	3.75	1.128	9.17	4.05	96.1	112.4	2.3
2019	32	31	11	9	1	1	186	90	40	149	28	182.0	4.45	1.242	7.37	4.31	94.2	102.8	2.0
2020	10	10	3	3	0	0	48	19	8	44	9	48.0	3.56	1.167	8.25	4.40	102.1	120.8	0.9

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

174

RBI

.0370

OBP

.0714

SLG

.0370

OPS

.1084

Pitching

G (P)

174

173

SHO

1,054

SO (P)

991

BB allowed

208

ERA

3.739

WHIP

1.1296

44th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.46

64th-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	H	TB
2014-05-14	NYY @ NYM Gameday	4	1	1
2014-05-09	NYY @ MIL Gameday	3	0	0
2014-05-20	NYY @ CHC Gameday	2	0	0
2015-06-15	NYY @ MIA Gameday	2	0	0
2015-08-15	NYY @ TOR Gameday	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2017-09-29	TOR @ NYY Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	0	15	0
2017-07-28	TB @ NYY Gameday	8.0	2	1	1	0	14	1
2017-05-26	ATH @ NYY Gameday	7.1	5	1	1	0	13	0
2014-06-11	NYY @ SEA Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	1	11	1
2014-04-27	LAA @ NYY Gameday	6.1	5	2	2	4	11	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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.