Found: Ryohei Tanaka’s Stats

» 15 February 2009 » In mlb prospects »

That was easier than I expected — I only had to look as far as my rss reader, where what I was looking for on the excellent Marine Blue blog. The author published a retrospective on Tanaka after he was released by the Marines, which includes abbreviated stats and a number of photos. Highly recommended. The author published similar retrospectives on all the players that left the Marines over the last offseason. 

Here are the stats, re-purposed in English.

Year Appearances Wins Losses Saves Innings K ERA
2001 E1 0 0 0 1/3 0 54.00
2002 E25 1 5 0 68 1/3 52 5.93
2003 5 0 0 0 10 5 8.10
2003 E23 0 1 0 30 2/3 25 6.16
2004 E20 0 1 3 23 12 4.30
2005 E1 0 0 0 1 0 63.00
2006 E35 3 0 0 39 1/3 20 4.12
2007 E28 4 3 0 67 34 4.70
2008 E23 1 4 0 46 20 6.07

Note that numbers prefixed with “E” in the appearances column are Eastern (minor) League appearances. I’ve italicized his 2003, top-level appearances. You can learn a lot more about the Japanese minor leagues on Deanna’s site.

Generally speaking I don’t take minor league stats too seriously. There are too many things to discredit them — the player might be working on a curveball, might be facing guys on rehab assignments, might be playing in front of an inexperienced defense. But from a young pitcher with eight years experience, I’d like to see some signs of improvement and a decent K rate, both of which are missing from Tanaka’s resume. Maybe he’ll take to US coaching and conditioning and improve, but the numbers would seem to indicate that he has a long way to go.

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