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Hisanori Takahashi P

Career Summary

Years	G	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	WARP
4	168	243.3	14	12	10	3.99	3.3

Birth Date	4-2-1975
Height	5' 10"
Weight	180 lbs

Age	49 years, 0 months, 23 days
Bats	L
Throws	L

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MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
cFIP and DRA are not available on a by-team basis and display as zeroes(0). See TOT line for season totals of these stats.
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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
2010	NYN	MLB	53	12	122.0	10	6	8	116	43	114	13	90	8.6	3.2	1.0	8.4	0%	.298	1.30	3.67	3.61	89	4.10	92.6	1.4
2011	ANA	MLB	61	0	68.0	4	3	2	58	25	52	7	97	7.7	3.3	0.9	6.9	0%	.259	1.22	3.97	3.44	94	3.44	80.0	1.1
2012	ANA	0	42	0	42.0	0	3	0	39	10	41	6	96	8.4	2.1	1.3	8.8	0%	.284	1.17	3.66	4.93	92	3.27	75.0	0.8
2012	PIT	0	9	0	8.3	0	0	0	10	4	11	2	96	10.8	4.3	2.2	11.9	0%	.364	1.68	5.05	8.64	80	3.36	77.1	0.1
2013	CHN	MLB	3	0	3.0	0	0	0	3	2	3	1	104	9.0	6.0	3.0	9.0	0%	.250	1.67	7.35	6.00	124	6.90	165.2	-0.1
2012	TOT	MLB	51	0	50.3	0	3	0	49	14	52	8	96	8.8	2.5	1.4	9.3	0%	.000	1.25	3.89	5.54	90	3.29	75.3	0.9
Career		MLB	168	12	243.3	14	12	10	226	84	221	29	93	8.4	3.1	1.1	8.2	40%	.286	1.27	3.84	3.99	91	3.78	86.4	3.3

Statistics for All Levels

'opp' stats - Quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.
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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-
2010	NYN	MLB	NL	53	12	122.0	10	6	8	116	43	114	13	90	8.6	3.2	1.0	8.4	0%	.298	1.30	3.67	3.61	89	4.10	92.6
2011	ANA	MLB	AL	61	0	68.0	4	3	2	58	25	52	7	97	7.7	3.3	0.9	6.9	0%	.259	1.22	3.97	3.44	94	3.44	80.0
2012	ANA	MLB	AL	42	0	42.0	0	3	0	39	10	41	6	96	8.4	2.1	1.3	8.8	0%	.284	1.17	3.66	4.93	92	3.27	75.0
2012	PIT	MLB	NL	9	0	8.3	0	0	0	10	4	11	2	96	10.8	4.3	2.2	11.9	0%	.364	1.68	5.05	8.64	80	3.36	77.1
2012	SLC	AAA	PCL	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0%	.000	0.00	3.66	0.00	104	4.03	83.9
2013	CHN	MLB	NL	3	0	3.0	0	0	0	3	2	3	1	104	9.0	6.0	3.0	9.0	0%	.250	1.67	7.35	6.00	124	6.90	165.2
2013	CSP	AAA	PCL	18	0	25.7	1	1	0	39	13	36	2		13.7	4.6	0.7	12.6	0%	.487	2.03	3.29	6.66	88	5.30	115.3
2013	IOW	AAA	PCL	20	0	27.3	1	0	0	14	9	25	3		4.6	3.0	1.0	8.2	0%	.167	0.84	4.15	1.98	87	5.16	112.2

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2010	2039	0.4792	0.4527	0.7313	0.5834	0.3324	0.8333	0.5666	0.2687
2011	1065	0.4685	0.4413	0.7617	0.5832	0.3163	0.8488	0.6201	0.2383
2012	829	0.4451	0.4427	0.7193	0.6070	0.3109	0.8616	0.4965	0.2807
2013	56	0.3571	0.4821	0.7778	0.7000	0.3611	0.9286	0.6154	0.2222
Career	3989	0.4675	0.4480	0.7376	0.5899	0.3240	0.8447	0.5670	0.2624

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
2012-06-24	2012-06-29	DTD	5	4	-	Hip	Soreness		-	-
2012-04-16	2012-04-18	DTD	2	2	Right	Arm	Soreness		-	-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2013	CHN	$1,000,000
2012	ANA	$4,200,000
2011	ANA	$3,800,000
2010	NYN	$1,000,000

Years	Description	Salary
4 yr	Previous	$10,000,000
4 yr	Total	$10,000,000

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
3 y 18 d	Arn Tellem	1 year/$1M (2013)

Details

1 year (2013). Signed by Chicago Cubs 1/2/13 (minor-league contract). Salary of $1M in majors. Contract purchased by Chicago Cubs 3/31/13. DFA by Chicago Cubs 4/16/13. Sent outright to Triple-A 4/17/13. Acquired by Colorado in trade from Chicago Cubs 6/22/13. Elected free agency 10/13.
2 years/$8M (2011-12). Signed by LA Angels as a free agent 12/2/10. 11:$3.8M, 12:$4.2M. Claimed by Pittsburgh off waivers from LA Angels 8/24/12. Released by Pittsburgh 10/29/12.
1 year/$1M (2010). Signed by NY Mets as a free agent from Japan 2/11/10 (minor-league contract). $1M salary in majors. $2M in performance bonuses. Takahashi must be signed to extension by 10/31/10 or released. Contract purchased by NY Mets 4/5/10. Released by NY Mets 11/5/10.

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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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Hisanori Takahashi threw 4,096 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2010 and 2013, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2013, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (89mph) and Change (81mph), also mixing in a Slider (79mph), Sinker (89mph) and Curve (69mph). He also rarely threw a Cutter (85mph).