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Yoshinobu Yamamoto
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About Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto (山本 由伸, Yamamoto Yoshinobu; born August 17, 1998) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Orix Buffaloes, where he became one of the most decorated pitchers in league history. Between 2021 and 2023, Yamamoto won three consecutive Pacific League Most Valuable Player Awards, three Eiji Sawamura Awards, and three Triple Crowns, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average in each of those seasons.
Bio summary from Wikipedia.
Player Stats
| W | 14 | L | 9 | ERA | 2.53 | G | 28 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GS | 28 | SV | 0 | IP | 185.0 | H | 119 |
| R | 55 | ER | 52 | BB | 42 | SO | 182 |
| WHIP | 0.870 | H/9 | 5.8 | HR/9 | 1.0 | BB/9 | 2.0 |
| K/9 | 8.9 | FIP | 3.33 | WAR | 5.9 |
2026 pitching — Baseball-Reference
Career — Lahman, through 2025
Pitching
| Year | Team | W | L | ERA | G | GS | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | HR | BB | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | LAN | 7 | 2 | 3.00 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90.0 | 78 | 7 | 22 | 105 |
| 2025 | LAN | 12 | 8 | 2.49 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.2 | 113 | 14 | 59 | 201 |
Season lines from the Lahman Baseball Database (Version 2025, via SABR), joined through the Chadwick Register ID crosswalk. The databank runs through the 2025 season — the current season is the 2026 line below, from the MLB Stats API.
2026 Season — MLB Stats API
Pitching
| W | L | ERA | G | GS | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 9 | 2.53 | 28 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 185.0 | 119 | 55 | 52 | 20 | 42 | 182 | 0.87 |
2026 regular-season line from the MLB Stats API (statsapi.mlb.com), pulled when this page was built. Multi-team stints are combined; rate stats are recomputed from the combined totals.
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