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2024 Japan Western League Pitching Leaders

2023 Season

Classification: Foreign

Overall: 145 games, 6 teams, approx. 48 games in season

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Rk	Name	Age	Tm	Lev	W	L	W-L%	ERA	RA9	G	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	Jun Maeda*	24	SFT	Fgn	4	1	.800	1.07	1.07	7	1	1	0	42.0	34	5	5	0	8	0	28	0	0	4	164	1.000	7.3	0.0	1.7	6.0	3.50
2	Yuta Matsukihira	21	CHU	Fgn	4	3	.571	2.30	2.45	9	1	0	0	58.2	53	16	15	1	18	0	37	0	0	4	236	1.210	8.1	0.2	2.8	5.7	2.06
3	Masaki Oyokawa*	23	HAN	Fgn	4	1	.800	2.45	2.76	6	1	0	0	29.1	21	9	8	3	11	0	35	0	0	1	118	1.091	6.4	0.9	3.4	10.7	3.18
4	Shogo Tamamura*	23	HIR	Fgn	4	2	.667	1.60	1.80	7	0	0	0	45.0	31	9	8	2	9	0	23	1	0	1	170	0.889	6.2	0.4	1.8	4.6	2.56
5	Jeremy Beasley	28	HAN	Fgn	3	0	1.000	0.55	0.55	7	0	0	0	33.0	13	2	2	0	11	0	31	0	0	0	118	0.727	3.5	0.0	3.0	8.5	2.82
6	Daiki Hayakawa?	--	KUF	Fgn	3	2	.600	2.76	3.55	7	1	0	0	45.2	38	18	14	2	17	0	33	1	0	2	193	1.204	7.5	0.4	3.4	6.5	1.94
7	Kenichi Murata	22	SFT	Fgn	3	2	.600	1.53	1.53	6	0	0	0	35.1	20	6	6	0	10	0	15	1	0	0	134	0.849	5.1	0.0	2.5	3.8	1.50
8	Reia Nakachi	23	CHU	Fgn	3	2	.600	3.23	3.80	8	0	0	0	47.1	48	20	17	0	11	0	49	0	0	5	197	1.246	9.1	0.0	2.1	9.3	4.45
9	Isaki Ninomiya?	--	KUF	Fgn	3	3	.500	3.44	3.76	9	2	1	0	55.0	44	23	21	3	23	0	35	2	0	2	230	1.218	7.2	0.5	3.8	5.7	1.52
10	Junya Nishi	22	HAN	Fgn	3	4	.429	2.76	2.91	10	0	0	1	58.2	58	19	18	5	18	0	53	4	0	3	247	1.295	8.9	0.8	2.8	8.1	2.94
11	Yusuke Nomura	35	HIR	Fgn	3	3	.500	2.27	2.27	8	0	0	0	35.2	26	9	9	1	16	0	21	0	0	0	146	1.178	6.6	0.3	4.0	5.3	1.31
12	Ryo Ohyama	22	SFT	Fgn	3	2	.600	3.00	4.15	7	0	0	0	39.0	33	18	13	1	14	0	29	3	0	3	161	1.205	7.6	0.2	3.2	6.7	2.07
13	Kanata Okuda?	--	KUF	Fgn	3	4	.429	7.52	8.29	11	0	0	0	46.2	77	43	39	5	14	0	11	1	1	5	217	1.950	14.9	1.0	2.7	2.1	0.79
14	Kazuma Satoh*	23	ORX	Fgn	3	2	.600	2.22	2.62	8	0	0	0	44.2	31	13	11	0	17	0	31	0	0	3	178	1.075	6.2	0.0	3.4	6.2	1.82
15	Shinji Tajima	34	CHU	Fgn	3	0	1.000	1.29	1.93	14	0	0	0	14.0	7	3	2	0	7	1	11	1	0	2	59	1.000	4.5	0.0	4.5	7.1	1.57
16	Hiroto Takahashi	21	CHU	Fgn	3	1	.750	0.93	2.48	4	1	1	0	29.0	18	8	3	0	8	0	22	1	0	0	112	0.897	5.6	0.0	2.5	6.8	2.75
17	Alexander Armenta*	20	SFT	Fgn	2	0	1.000	1.13	1.13	2	0	0	0	8.0	7	1	1	0	3	0	9	0	0	0	33	1.250	7.9	0.0	3.4	10.1	3.00
18	Robert Corniel	29	HIR	Fgn	2	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	10	0	0	3	10.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	16	0	0	0	35	0.400	1.8	0.0	1.8	14.4	8.00
19	Sohta Fujimoto?	--	KUF	Fgn	2	2	.500	7.40	7.84	19	0	0	0	20.2	23	18	17	0	27	0	11	3	0	3	109	2.419	10.0	0.0	11.8	4.8	0.41
20	Hiroto Fuku*	32	CHU	Fgn	2	0	1.000	3.97	3.97	15	0	0	0	11.1	11	5	5	0	2	0	11	0	0	0	49	1.147	8.7	0.0	1.6	8.7	5.50
21	Koji Fukutani	33	CHU	Fgn	2	0	1.000	1.61	1.61	6	0	0	0	22.1	22	4	4	0	2	0	22	1	0	0	89	1.075	8.9	0.0	0.8	8.9	11.00
22	Shunsuke Kasaya*	27	SFT	Fgn	2	1	.667	1.95	2.43	9	0	0	1	37.0	31	10	8	0	16	0	32	0	1	2	152	1.270	7.5	0.0	3.9	7.8	2.00
23	Hikaru Kimura	23	SFT	Fgn	2	2	.500	5.06	5.91	5	0	0	0	21.1	25	14	12	0	7	0	13	1	0	2	95	1.500	10.5	0.0	3.0	5.5	1.86
24	Yuito Mae	22	ORX	Fgn	2	1	.667	2.33	2.79	18	0	0	0	19.1	15	6	5	1	5	0	18	1	0	0	77	1.034	7.0	0.5	2.3	8.4	3.60
25	Takahiro Matsuba*	33	CHU	Fgn	2	0	1.000	0.56	0.56	3	0	0	0	16.0	8	1	1	0	4	0	6	1	0	1	57	0.750	4.5	0.0	2.3	3.4	1.50
26	Ren Mukunoki	24	ORX	Fgn	2	0	1.000	1.50	1.80	7	0	0	0	30.0	25	6	5	0	4	0	24	0	0	1	113	0.967	7.5	0.0	1.2	7.2	6.00
27	Ryota Muranishi	27	ORX	Fgn	2	3	.400	4.15	4.85	8	0	0	0	39.0	44	21	18	1	13	0	21	5	0	0	173	1.462	10.2	0.2	3.0	4.8	1.62
28	Akira Neo	24	CHU	Fgn	2	2	.500	3.99	4.60	6	0	0	0	29.1	34	15	13	1	11	0	25	2	0	1	129	1.534	10.4	0.3	3.4	7.7	2.27
29	Yusei Nishihama	21	KUF	Fgn	2	4	.333	4.09	4.09	9	0	0	0	50.2	44	23	23	3	20	0	36	3	0	4	219	1.263	7.8	0.5	3.6	6.4	1.80
30	Kyosuke Saito	19	ORX	Fgn	2	1	.667	3.16	3.16	6	0	0	0	25.2	23	9	9	0	16	0	25	1	0	3	116	1.519	8.1	0.0	5.6	8.8	1.56
31	Hiroki Satoh*	25	SFT	Fgn	2	0	1.000	1.74	2.61	3	0	0	0	10.1	9	3	2	0	4	0	8	0	0	0	43	1.258	7.8	0.0	3.5	7.0	2.00
32	Hiroshi Suzuki	27	ORX	Fgn	2	2	.500	3.00	3.67	7	0	0	0	27.0	26	11	9	1	8	0	14	1	0	1	108	1.259	8.7	0.3	2.7	4.7	1.75
33	Ren Tomida*	22	HAN	Fgn	2	3	.400	2.12	3.34	5	0	0	0	29.2	26	11	7	0	9	0	17	2	0	0	120	1.180	7.9	0.0	2.7	5.2	1.89
34	Ryoga Tomiyama*	27	ORX	Fgn	2	1	.667	1.80	1.80	5	0	0	0	10.0	9	2	2	1	2	0	8	0	0	0	39	1.100	8.1	0.9	1.8	7.2	4.00
35	Tsuyoshi Wada*	43	SFT	Fgn	2	1	.667	3.26	3.72	4	0	0	0	19.1	23	8	7	1	1	0	25	0	0	0	82	1.241	10.7	0.5	0.5	11.6	25.00
36	Takumi Akiyama	33	HAN	Fgn	1	3	.250	7.71	7.71	6	0	0	0	21.0	33	18	18	4	3	0	15	1	0	0	99	1.714	14.1	1.7	1.3	6.4	5.00
37	Koyo Aoyagi	30	HAN	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	2	0	0	1	6.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	6	0	0	0	19	0.333	0.0	0.0	3.0	9.0	3.00
38	Kohei Azuma	24	ORX	Fgn	1	0	1.000	2.63	2.63	3	0	0	0	13.2	11	4	4	0	4	0	9	2	0	0	55	1.098	7.2	0.0	2.6	5.9	2.25
39	Yugo Bandoh	28	SFT	Fgn	1	0	1.000	2.81	2.81	3	0	0	0	16.0	18	5	5	0	1	0	8	1	1	0	65	1.188	10.1	0.0	0.6	4.5	8.00
40	Jose Betances	24	HAN	Fgn	1	0	1.000	9.00	10.50	7	0	0	0	6.0	6	7	6	0	5	0	6	1	1	1	28	1.833	9.0	0.0	7.5	9.0	1.20
41	Atsushi Endoh	25	HIR	Fgn	1	2	.333	2.66	2.88	9	0	0	0	40.2	29	13	12	2	16	0	28	2	1	2	166	1.107	6.4	0.4	3.5	6.2	1.75
42	Anderson Espinoza	26	ORX	Fgn	1	0	1.000	1.50	1.50	1	0	0	0	6.0	4	1	1	0	4	0	4	0	0	0	26	1.333	6.0	0.0	6.0	6.0	1.00
43	Kouya Fujii	27	SFT	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	3	0	0	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	12	1.000	6.0	0.0	3.0	12.0	4.00
44	Yuri Furukawa	28	SFT	Fgn	1	1	.500	2.57	5.79	10	0	0	0	14.0	13	9	4	0	10	0	8	2	0	0	69	1.643	8.4	0.0	6.4	5.1	0.80
45	Ginji Hasebe*	25	HIR	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.82	11	0	0	0	11.0	7	1	0	0	4	0	9	0	0	1	43	1.000	5.7	0.0	3.3	7.4	2.25
46	Motoki Higa	41	ORX	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	5	0	0	0	4.1	2	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	16	0.692	4.2	0.0	2.1	8.3	4.00
47	Hidetoshi Ibaragi	20	HAN	Fgn	1	1	.500	4.06	4.06	7	0	0	0	31.0	27	14	14	1	20	0	19	3	0	5	139	1.516	7.8	0.3	5.8	5.5	0.95
48	Kaito Iriyama	24	ORX	Fgn	1	0	1.000	2.12	2.65	17	0	0	6	17.0	16	5	4	0	7	0	15	0	0	4	73	1.353	8.5	0.0	3.7	7.9	2.14
49	Shuta Ishikawa	32	SFT	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	1	0	0	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	6	1	0	0	18	0.600	3.6	0.0	1.8	10.8	6.00
50	Masashi Itoh*	28	HAN	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	1	0	0	0	6.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	19	0.333	1.5	0.0	1.5	1.5	1.00
51	Shunsuke Iwai	22	SFT	Fgn	1	1	.500	3.52	3.52	7	0	0	2	7.2	9	3	3	0	1	0	9	1	0	2	35	1.304	10.6	0.0	1.2	10.6	9.00
52	Sho Iwasaki	34	CHU	Fgn	1	0	1.000	1.93	2.57	15	0	0	2	14.0	13	4	3	0	6	0	12	0	0	4	62	1.357	8.4	0.0	3.9	7.7	2.00
53	Kenshin Kakigoshi*	24	CHU	Fgn	1	0	1.000	11.57	15.43	3	0	0	0	2.1	5	4	3	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	15	3.429	19.3	0.0	11.6	7.7	0.67
54	Kei Kawano	22	HIR	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	8	0	0	3	7.1	2	0	0	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	26	0.409	2.5	0.0	1.2	7.4	6.00
55	Makoto Kemna	29	HIR	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	4	0	0	0	6.0	4	0	0	0	2	0	3	1	0	0	24	1.000	6.0	0.0	3.0	4.5	1.50
56	Takumi Kurohara*	24	HIR	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	1	0	0	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	20	0.800	3.6	0.0	3.6	7.2	2.00
57	Anthony Martínez	24	HAN	Fgn	1	0	1.000	2.57	2.57	4	0	0	0	7.0	7	2	2	2	2	0	5	0	0	0	29	1.286	9.0	2.6	2.6	6.4	2.50
58	Humberto Mejía	27	CHU	Fgn	1	1	.500	0.69	0.69	2	0	0	0	13.0	9	1	1	0	2	0	8	1	0	0	49	0.846	6.2	0.0	1.4	5.5	4.00
59	Mizuki Miura*	24	SFT	Fgn	1	1	.500	1.46	1.70	6	0	0	0	37.0	27	7	6	1	9	0	23	1	0	0	144	0.973	6.6	0.2	2.2	5.6	2.56
60	Hiroya Miyagi*	22	ORX	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	1	0	0	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	16	0.400	3.6	0.0	0.0	12.6
61	Keito Mombetsu*	19	HAN	Fgn	1	0	1.000	1.06	1.85	6	0	0	0	34.0	27	7	4	2	9	0	23	0	0	0	131	1.059	7.1	0.5	2.4	6.1	2.56
62	Shohei Mori*	26	HIR	Fgn	1	3	.250	3.40	4.60	8	0	0	1	45.0	52	23	17	4	9	0	38	1	0	4	195	1.356	10.4	0.8	1.8	7.6	4.22
63	Yuito Nakata	22	ORX	Fgn	1	1	.500	8.64	8.64	7	0	0	0	8.1	16	8	8	2	3	0	9	0	0	1	42	2.280	17.3	2.2	3.2	9.7	3.00
64	Yuki Nishi	33	HAN	Fgn	1	0	1.000	3.12	4.15	2	0	0	0	8.2	11	4	3	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	38	1.269	11.4	0.0	0.0	7.3
65	Shinno Ohshiro*	21	SFT	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.77	0.77	9	0	0	0	11.2	7	1	1	0	2	0	8	0	0	0	40	0.771	5.4	0.0	1.5	6.2	4.00
66	Toshiya Okada*	32	CHU	Fgn	1	1	.500	1.15	1.72	5	0	0	1	15.2	14	3	2	0	0	0	11	0	0	2	62	0.894	8.0	0.0	0.0	6.3
67	Ryuhei Sotani*	23	ORX	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	2	0	0	0	7.2	4	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	27	0.522	4.7	0.0	0.0	10.6
68	Taito Takashima	24	ORX	Fgn	1	0	1.000	1.80	1.80	1	0	0	0	5.0	7	1	1	0	1	0	7	0	0	1	23	1.600	12.6	0.0	1.8	12.6	7.00
69	Kazuki Takita*	22	HIR	Fgn	1	0	1.000	2.63	2.63	7	0	0	0	13.2	12	4	4	0	10	0	10	0	0	0	59	1.610	7.9	0.0	6.6	6.6	1.00
70	Junya Tsuda	22	HAN	Fgn	1	3	.250	6.23	7.27	6	0	0	0	26.0	35	21	18	3	7	0	17	1	0	1	117	1.615	12.1	1.0	2.4	5.9	2.43
71	Takuma Uchima	25	HIR	Fgn	1	0	1.000	3.38	3.38	11	0	0	0	10.2	11	4	4	1	4	0	11	1	0	0	47	1.406	9.3	0.8	3.4	9.3	2.75
72	Yuki Udagawa	25	ORX	Fgn	1	0	1.000	1.50	1.50	6	0	0	0	6.0	4	1	1	0	2	0	9	1	0	0	24	1.000	6.0	0.0	3.0	13.5	4.50
73	Kotaro Ueda*	21	CHU	Fgn	1	4	.200	4.91	6.44	7	0	0	0	29.1	35	21	16	0	13	0	23	2	0	0	135	1.636	10.7	0.0	4.0	7.1	1.77
74	Yugo Umeno	25	CHU	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	2	0	0	1	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	9.0
75	Hideaki Wakui	38	CHU	Fgn	1	0	1.000	0.00	0.00	1	0	0	0	5.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	18	0.800	5.4	0.0	1.8	9.0	5.00
76	Shunpeita Yamashita	21	ORX	Fgn	1	1	.500	1.23	1.23	3	0	0	0	14.2	10	2	2	0	6	0	14	1	0	0	59	1.091	6.1	0.0	3.7	8.6	2.33
77	Soichiro Yamazaki	26	ORX	Fgn	1	0	1.000	2.25	2.25	16	0	0	0	16.0	12	4	4	1	6	0	18	1	0	0	67	1.125	6.8	0.6	3.4	10.1	3.00
78	Shota Abe	31	ORX	Fgn	0	0		0.00	0.00	6	0	0	1	5.1	3	0	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	1	21	1.125	5.1	0.0	5.1	5.1	1.00
79	Frank Alvarez	25	CHU	Fgn	0	1	.000	5.79	7.07	12	0	0	0	14.0	16	11	9	1	7	0	11	2	0	1	66	1.643	10.3	0.6	4.5	7.1	1.57
80	Taketo Ashida	24	ORX	Fgn	0	0		3.60	3.60	5	0	0	0	10.0	11	4	4	0	1	0	2	4	1	0	43	1.200	9.9	0.0	0.9	1.8	2.00
81	Mailon Felix	24	SFT	Fgn	0	0		3.27	4.91	10	0	0	1	11.0	7	6	4	0	11	0	6	0	0	4	48	1.636	5.7	0.0	9.0	4.9	0.55
82	Michael Feliz	31	CHU	Fgn	0	0		0.00	2.19	14	0	0	4	12.1	8	3	0	0	3	0	13	0	0	4	48	0.892	5.8	0.0	2.2	9.5	4.33
83	Reira Fujii	24	HIR	Fgn	0	0		9.00	10.50	5	0	0	0	6.0	5	7	6	1	2	0	5	1	0	2	27	1.167	7.5	1.5	3.0	7.5	2.50
84	Yoshiaki Fujioka?	--	KUF	Fgn	0	0		0.00	0.00	5	0	0	0	4.1	1	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	15	0.462	2.1	0.0	2.1	10.4	5.00
85	Kento Fujishima	26	CHU	Fgn	0	0		6.00	6.00	3	0	0	0	3.0	3	2	2	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	13	1.333	9.0	6.0	3.0	9.0	3.00
86	Shota Fukushima*	21	CHU	Fgn	0	1	.000	4.24	5.29	16	0	0	1	17.0	18	10	8	0	15	1	13	3	0	1	83	1.941	9.5	0.0	7.9	6.9	0.87
87	Ryusei Gonda	24	ORX	Fgn	0	0		3.71	4.24	16	0	0	0	17.0	18	8	7	1	7	0	8	1	0	0	76	1.471	9.5	0.5	3.7	4.2	1.14
88	Shohta Habu	23	CHU	Fgn	0	0		2.25	2.25	4	0	0	0	4.0	5	1	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	16	1.250	11.3	0.0	0.0	6.8
89	Masumi Hamachi	26	HAN	Fgn	0	0		3.00	3.00	4	0	0	0	3.0	4	1	1	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	15	2.000	12.0	3.0	6.0	6.0	1.00
90	Takehiro Hasegawa*	24	SFT	Fgn	0	0		0.00	0.00	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	18.0
91	Thomas Hatch	29	HIR	Fgn	0	1	.000	1.02	1.53	4	0	0	0	17.2	12	3	2	0	1	0	9	0	0	0	62	0.736	6.1	0.0	0.5	4.6	9.00
92	Taylor Hearn*	29	HIR	Fgn	0	0		0.00	0.00	10	0	0	3	9.2	6	0	0	0	3	0	9	0	0	1	37	0.931	5.6	0.0	2.8	8.4	3.00
93	Darwinzon Hernández*	27	SFT	Fgn	0	0		0.00	0.00	3	0	0	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	11	0.333	3.0	0.0	0.0	15.0
94	Atsumi Hidaka	19	HIR	Fgn	0	2	.000	6.30	8.10	4	0	0	0	10.0	12	9	7	4	5	0	7	1	0	0	50	1.700	10.8	3.6	4.5	6.3	1.40
95	Nao Higashihama	34	SFT	Fgn	0	0		2.57	2.57	2	0	0	0	7.0	10	2	2	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	31	1.571	12.9	0.0	1.3	7.7	6.00
96	Rintaro Hirama	30	KUF	Fgn	0	1	.000	0.76	1.52	18	0	0	1	23.2	19	4	2	0	9	0	14	1	0	2	100	1.183	7.2	0.0	3.4	5.3	1.56
97	Hitomi Honda	24	ORX	Fgn	0	0		2.00	2.00	9	0	0	0	9.0	6	2	2	0	5	0	5	0	0	0	36	1.222	6.0	0.0	5.0	5.0	1.00
98	Kotaro Hoshino	22	SFT	Fgn	0	0		18.00	18.00	1	0	0	0	1.0	3	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	6	3.000	27.0	0.0	0.0	18.0
99	Sota Ikeya*	24	KUF	Fgn	0	0		4.00	5.00	8	0	0	0	9.0	8	5	4	0	10	0	2	0	0	1	42	2.000	8.0	0.0	10.0	2.0	0.20
100	Yuya Ishiguro	23	HAN	Fgn	0	3	.000	3.31	4.96	19	0	0	3	16.1	13	9	6	0	7	0	17	1	0	3	73	1.224	7.2	0.0	3.9	9.4	2.43