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Kenshin Kawakami P

Career Summary

Years	G	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	WARP
14	50	243.7	8	22	1	4.32	3.2

Birth Date	6-22-1975
Height	5' 11"
Weight	200 lbs

Age	48 years, 10 months, 3 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

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MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
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YEAR	Team	Lg	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-	WARP
2009	ATL	MLB	32	25	156.3	7	12	1	153	57	105	15	95	8.8	3.3	0.9	6.0	0%	.284	1.34	4.16	3.86	97	3.90	83.7	2.9
2010	ATL	MLB	18	16	87.3	1	10	0	98	32	59	10	91	10.1	3.3	1.0	6.1	0%	.304	1.49	4.37	5.15	108	4.97	112.2	0.3
Career		MLB	50	41	243.7	8	22	1	251	89	164	25	93	9.3	3.3	0.9	6.1	43%	.292	1.40	4.24	4.32	101	4.29	93.9	3.2

Statistics for All Levels

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YEAR	Team	Lg	LG	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-
1998	CHU	npb	JCL	26	25	161.3	14	6	0	123	51	124	14		6.9	2.8	0.8	6.9	0%	-.577	1.08	-0.31	0.00	0	0.00	0.0
1999	CHU	npb	JCL	29	25	162.0	8	9	1	173	43	102	20		9.6	2.4	1.1	5.7	0%	-.927	1.33	0.06	0.00	0	0.00	0.0
2000	CHU	npb	JCL	14	10	60.3	2	3	0	65	20	24	10		9.7	3.0	1.5	3.6	0%	-1.019	1.41	1.47	0.00	0	0.00	0.0
2001	CHU	npb	JCL	26	25	145.0	6	10	0	153	36	127	12		9.5	2.2	0.7	7.9	0%	-.806	1.30	-0.88	0.00	0	0.00	0.0
2002	CHU	npb	JCL	27	1	187.7	12	6	0	170	34	149	13		8.2	1.6	0.6	7.1	0%	-.801	1.09	-0.69	0.00	0	0.00	0.0
2003	CHU	npb	JCL	8	0	53.7	4	3	0	60	14	37	2		10.1	2.3	0.3	6.2	0%	-1.074	1.38	2.98	3.02	0	0.00	0.0
2004	CHU	npb	JCL	27	0	192.3	17	7	0	173	38	176	27		8.1	1.8	1.3	8.2	0%	-.596	1.10	3.74	3.32	0	0.00	0.0
2005	CHU	npb	JCL	25	25	180.3	11	8	0	186	28	138	20		9.3	1.4	1.0	6.9	0%	-.892	1.19	3.57	3.74	0	0.00	0.0
2006	CHU	npb	JCL	29	28	215.0	17	7	0	166	39	194	22		6.9	1.6	0.9	8.1	0%	.248	0.95	3.11	2.51	0	0.00	0.0
2007	CHU	npb	JCL	26	26	167.3	12	8	0	175	23	145	18		9.4	1.2	1.0	7.8	0%	.312	1.18	3.22	3.55	0	0.00	0.0
2008	CHU	npb	JCL	20	16	117.3	9	5	0	99	25	112	11		7.6	1.9	0.8	8.6	0%	.275	1.06	3.01	2.30	0	0.00	0.0
2009	ATL	MLB	NL	32	25	156.3	7	12	1	153	57	105	15	95	8.8	3.3	0.9	6.0	0%	.284	1.34	4.16	3.86	97	3.90	83.7
2010	ATL	MLB	NL	18	16	87.3	1	10	0	98	32	59	10	91	10.1	3.3	1.0	6.1	0%	.304	1.49	4.37	5.15	108	4.97	112.2
2010	GWN	AAA	INT	5	5	21.0	0	1	0	26	5	22	5	102	11.1	2.1	2.1	9.4	0%	.356	1.48	5.14	4.29	0	0.00	0.0
2011	MIS	AA	SOU	16	6	40.7	2	4	0	56	16	32	9	104	12.4	3.5	2.0	7.1	0%	.362	1.77	6.00	8.41	125	7.78	158.9
2011	BRA	Rk	GCL	2	1	3.0	0	0	0	7	1	3	0	98	21.0	3.0	0.0	9.0	0%	.583	2.67	2.40	15.00	88	8.51	173.6

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2009	2437	0.4858	0.4432	0.8250	0.6368	0.2602	0.8846	0.6871	0.1750
2010	1417	0.4982	0.4524	0.8159	0.6331	0.2729	0.8680	0.6959	0.1841
Career	3854	0.4904	0.4466	0.8217	0.6354	0.2649	0.8785	0.6903	0.1783

Injury History — No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On	Date Off	Transaction	Days	Games	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date	Reaggravation
2011-07-13	2011-08-13	Minors	31	0	-		Not Disclosed		-	-
2011-04-18	2011-06-09	Minors	52	0	Right	Shoulder	Strain	Rotator Cuff	-
2010-05-19	2010-05-19	DTD	0	0	Right	Foot	Blister		-
2010-05-04	2010-05-04	DTD	0	0	Right	Foot	Blister		-
2010-03-31	2010-04-05	Camp	5	0	Right	Fingers	Blister	Index Finger	-
2009-06-25	2009-07-03	DTD	8	7	Left	Neck	Contusion		-
2009-04-29	2009-05-05	DTD	6	5	Right	Shoulder	Fatigue		-
2009-03-19	2009-03-25	Camp	6	0	Right	Shoulder	Soreness		-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2011	ATL	$7,330,000
2010	ATL	$7,333,667
2009	ATL	$8,333,667

Years	Description	Salary
3 yr	Previous	$22,997,334
3 yr	Total	$22,997,334

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
1 y 161 d	Dan Evans	3 years/$23M (2009-11)

Details

Signed for 2012 with Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Central League.
3 years/$23M (2009-11). Signed by Atlanta as a free agent 1/13/09. $2M signing bonus (paid between 2/09 and 5/09). 09:$7.667M, 10:$6.667M, 11:$6.667M. Kawakami may become a free agent if he and the club do agree to new contract by 10/15/11 or one day after final game of 2011 World Series. Award bonuses: $25,000 for LCS MVP. $50,000 each for Gold Glove, WS MVP, Rolaids award, All Star. $0.1M for Cy Young, $0.1M for Rookie of Year ($50,000 for 2nd place, $25,000 for 3rd). Perks: interpreter, $25,000 moving expenses, housing and SUV during Spring Training, access to massage therapist, 8 round-trip business- or first-class airline tickets between Tokyo and Atlanta. Sent outright to AAA by Atlanta 11/13/10.
1998 - 2008. Chunichi Dragons of Japanese Central League

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT	W	L	SV	G	GS	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	BABIP	WHIP	ERA	DRA	VORP	WARP
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	0.0	?	0	0	?	.000	0.00	0.00	?	0.0	0.0

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Date	Question	Answer
2010-08-02 13:30:00 (link to chat)	What should the Braves do with Kenshin Kawakami? He's pitched 1 inning since June 26, yet he's still on the active roster. (Brent from Raleigh)	Having ditched the execrable Jesse Chavez, I don't see a problem with holding onto him as the token 12th pitcher, and insurance against an injury in the rotation. This thing isn't won yet, after all. (Christina Kahrl)
2010-05-14 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Hi Jay Could you rank the following pitchers going forward: Bud Norris, Kenshin Kawakami, John Ely and Chris Narveson. Thanks (Ed from Cranford, NJ)	Except for Ely, they're all sporting pretty high ERAs at the moment. Narveson has shown he can can miss bats, which is pretty handy for a lefty, Kawakami and Norris showed they belonged at the major league level last year. Ely certainly didn't register as the type of stopper he's been in the past two outings, so I worry that his success may be more short-lived. (Jay Jaffe)

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Kenshin Kawakami threw 3,929 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2009 and 2010, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2010, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (90mph) and Splitter (84mph), also mixing in a Curve (72mph) and Cutter (87mph).