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Portrait of Yoshinori Tateyama

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Career Summary
Years G IP W L SV ERA WARP
16 53 61 3 0 1 5.75 -0.1
Birth Date12-26-1975
Height5' 10"
Weight165 lbs
Age48 years, 3 months, 29 days
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WARP Summary

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
2011 TEX MLB 39 0 44.0 2 0 1 37 11 43 8 114 7.6 2.3 1.6 8.8 0% .248 1.09 4.35 4.50 109 4.40 102.2 0.2
2012 TEX MLB 14 0 17.0 1 0 0 18 6 18 4 103 9.5 3.2 2.1 9.5 0% .292 1.41 5.04 9.00 124 5.99 137.4 -0.2
CareerMLB53061.0301551761121118.12.51.89.038%.2611.184.545.751144.84112.0-0.1

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-
1999 NIP npb JPL 22 16 106.0 6 5 0 101 29 62 11 8.6 2.5 0.9 5.3 0% -.882 1.23 -0.14 0.00 0 0.00 0.0
2000 NIP npb JPL 28 13 89.3 6 8 0 106 29 55 15 10.7 2.9 1.5 5.5 0% -.919 1.51 0.62 0.00 0 0.00 0.0
2001 NIP npb JPL 10 1 14.3 1 0 0 22 9 9 5 13.8 5.7 3.1 5.7 0% -.739 2.17 3.57 0.00 0 0.00 0.0
2002 NIP npb JPL 45 1 59.0 3 2 4 40 13 41 7 6.1 2.0 1.1 6.3 0% -.541 0.90 -0.07 0.00 0 0.00 0.0
2003 NIP npb JPL 32 0 37.3 2 1 15 24 4 31 5 5.8 1.0 1.2 7.5 0% -.475 0.75 3.55 2.17 0 0.00 0.0
2004 NIP npb JPL 41 0 46.3 1 3 0 39 7 39 4 7.6 1.4 0.8 7.6 0% -.673 0.99 3.14 2.33 0 0.00 0.0
2005 NIP npb JPL 45 0 51.3 4 6 2 50 8 35 10 8.8 1.4 1.8 6.1 0% -.755 1.13 4.84 3.68 0 0.00 0.0
2006 NIP npb JPL 46 0 47.0 3 3 0 42 10 30 6 8.0 1.9 1.1 5.7 0% .248 1.11 4.02 3.06 0 0.00 0.0
2007 NIP npb JPL 7 7 41.0 2 4 0 33 9 31 7 7.2 2.0 1.5 6.8 0% .226 1.02 4.69 4.17 0 0.00 0.0
2008 NIP npb JPL 58 0 67.3 1 2 2 61 12 53 3 8.2 1.6 0.4 7.1 0% .284 1.08 2.75 3.08 0 0.00 0.0
2009 NIP npb JPL 46 0 47.7 5 7 0 53 15 43 3 10.0 2.8 0.6 8.1 0% .340 1.43 3.04 3.77 0 0.00 0.0
2010 NIP npb JPL 58 0 55.0 1 2 4 43 11 59 3 7.0 1.8 0.5 9.7 0% .280 0.98 2.42 1.80 0 0.00 0.0
2011 TEX MLB AL 39 0 44.0 2 0 1 37 11 43 8 114 7.6 2.3 1.6 8.8 0% .248 1.09 4.35 4.50 109 4.40 102.2
2011 ROU AAA PCL 14 0 21.0 1 0 1 17 4 26 1 7.3 1.7 0.4 11.1 0% .308 1.00 2.92 2.14 62 1.82 37.1
2012 TEX MLB AL 14 0 17.0 1 0 0 18 6 18 4 103 9.5 3.2 2.1 9.5 0% .292 1.41 5.04 9.00 124 5.99 137.4
2012 ROU AAA PCL 32 0 39.7 4 0 6 29 7 45 2 6.6 1.6 0.5 10.2 0% .276 0.91 2.65 1.13 69 2.56 53.3
2013 ROU AAA PCL 23 0 34.0 0 1 1 37 10 44 5 9.8 2.6 1.3 11.6 0% .360 1.38 4.03 4.24 89 4.86 105.6
2013 SWB AAA INT 21 1 42.3 2 2 1 37 4 42 2 102 7.9 0.9 0.4 8.9 0% .297 0.97 2.18 1.70 76 3.04 66.0
2014 SWB AAA INT 9 0 13.3 0 1 0 16 3 17 1 10.8 2.0 0.7 11.5 0% .385 1.43 3.12 6.08 69 3.33 70.6

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr%
2011 715 0.5706 0.4266 0.7770 0.5466 0.2671 0.8072 0.6951 0.2230
2012 292 0.6062 0.4555 0.8496 0.6102 0.2174 0.8611 0.8000 0.1504
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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
2013-02-25 2013-03-06 Camp 9 0 - Low Back Stiffness - -
2012-03-30 2012-04-14 15-DL 15 8 - Low Back Strain - -

Compensation

Year Team Salary
2014 NYA $
2012 TEX $1,000,000
2011 TEX $
YearsDescriptionSalary
2 yrPrevious$1,000,000
2 yrTotal$1,000,000

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
1 y 44 dPro Star Management1 year (2014)

Details
  • 1 year (2014). Re-signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 12/25/13 (minor-league contract)
  • 1 year (2013). Re-signed by Texas as a free agent 12/20/12 (minor-league contract). May request release 3/26/13 if he will not make Major League roster. $0.1M retention bonus if he agrees to start season in minors. May opt out of contract 6/1/13 if not on Major League roster. Released by Texas 3/21/13. Re-signed by Texas 3/23/13 (minor-league contract). Acquired by NY Yankees in trade 6/21/13.
  • 1 year (2011), plus 2012-13 club options. Signed by Texas as a free agent from Japan 11/30/09 (split contract). Texas exercised $1M option for 2012 10/31/11. Texas declined 2013 option 10/30/12.
  • 1999-2010: Nippon Ham Fighters of Japan's Pacific 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
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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Yoshinori Tateyama threw 1,249 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2011 and 2013, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2013, he relied primarily on his Sinker (88mph), Curve (73mph) and Change (78mph), also mixing in a Screwball (73mph).