Yusei Kikuchi

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 205 lb

BornJune 17, 1991 · Morioka, Iwate, Japan

MLB debutMarch 21, 2019

Seasons7 (2019–2025)

Seattle Mariners 2019–2021; Toronto Blue Jays 2022–2023; Houston Astros 2024; Toronto Blue Jays 2024; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2025

Percentile snapshot

2025 season — qualified pitchers

80.4

86.3

5.9

25.5

SHO

180

9.8

37.3

3.9

174

56.9

29.4

178.3

56.9

ERA

3.99

43.1

WHIP

1.424

5.9

K/9

8.78

56.9

FIP

4.14

33.3

FIP-

102.3

23.5

ERA+

101.6

37.3

sWAR

1.9

37.3

of 52 qualified 2025 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.2

81.8

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2019	32	2	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-115.4	-100.0	.000	-0.2
2020	9	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2021	29	2	2	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-110.8	-100.0	.000	1.1
2022	32	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6
2023	32	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
2024	32	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
2025	33	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2019	32	32	6	11	0	1	1	195	98	50	116	36	161.7	5.46	1.515	6.46	5.75	129.5	81.4	-0.2
2020	9	9	2	4	0	0	0	41	27	20	47	3	47.0	5.17	1.298	9.00	3.27	76.5	82.7	0.0
2021	29	29	7	9	0	0	0	145	77	62	163	27	157.0	4.41	1.318	9.34	4.65	112.3	93.9	1.1
2022	32	20	6	7	1	0	0	93	58	58	124	23	100.7	5.19	1.500	11.09	5.55	142.9	75.0	-0.6
2023	32	32	11	6	0	0	0	165	72	48	181	27	167.7	3.86	1.270	9.72	4.12	98.1	108.6	2.3
2024	32	32	9	10	0	0	0	167	79	44	206	25	175.7	4.05	1.201	10.55	3.38	84.2	99.3	1.7
2025	33	33	7	11	0	0	0	180	79	74	174	24	178.3	3.99	1.424	8.78	4.14	102.3	101.6	1.9
2026	12	12	1	6	0	0	0	61	32	28	58	7	57.3	5.02	1.552	9.10	—	—	—	—

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.

Greyed rows are the current season, sourced from our own game log rather than the archived record book: wRC+, OPS+, wOBA, FIP and sWAR land when the season is archived, and are never approximated before then.

Career totals

Batting

199

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

199

187

SHO

988

SO (P)

1,011

BB allowed

356

ERA

4.464

WHIP

1.3583

K/9

9.21

Totals run through the last archived season (2025), so the current season in the table above is not in them yet. 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
2019-09-19	SEA @ PIT Gameday	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2021-05-11	SEA @ LAD Gameday	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2024-07-09	TOR @ SF Gameday	7.1	6	2	2	0	13	2
2024-08-31	KC @ HOU Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	0	12	0
2025-06-25	BOS @ LAA Gameday	7.0	3	2	0	1	12	0
2021-07-23	ATH @ SEA Gameday	6.0	6	3	3	1	12	2
2021-05-11	SEA @ LAD Gameday	6.1	6	3	3	1	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.