Takashi Saito
Los Angeles Dodgers 2006–2008; Boston Red Sox 2009; Atlanta Braves 2010; Milwaukee Brewers 2011; Arizona Diamondbacks 2012
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.3 |
| 2009 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.9 |
| 2010 | 56 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.9 |
| 2012 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 72 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 18 | 23 | 107 | 3 | 78.3 | 2.07 | .906 | 12.29 | 1.83 | 40.8 | 217.1 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 63 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 10 | 13 | 78 | 5 | 64.3 | 1.40 | .715 | 10.91 | 2.51 | 57.0 | 314.9 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 45 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 13 | 16 | 60 | 1 | 47.0 | 2.49 | 1.191 | 11.49 | 1.98 | 47.5 | 167.4 | 1.3 |
| 2009 | 56 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 15 | 25 | 52 | 6 | 55.7 | 2.43 | 1.347 | 8.41 | 4.29 | 93.6 | 189.1 | 1.9 |
| 2010 | 56 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 17 | 17 | 69 | 4 | 54.0 | 2.83 | 1.074 | 11.50 | 2.46 | 62.1 | 139.7 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 9 | 23 | 2 | 26.7 | 2.03 | 1.125 | 7.76 | 3.37 | 85.9 | 193.7 | 0.9 |
| 2012 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 12.0 | 6.75 | 1.833 | 8.25 | 7.14 | 174.1 | 60.7 | -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
Pitching
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-04-09 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006-04-10 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006-04-13 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006-04-14 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006-04-15 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-05-25 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 2006-04-18 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2006-06-06 | NYM @ LAD Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 2006-06-17 | LAD @ ATH Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2006-07-24 | SD @ LAD Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.