Kenta Maeda

Bats R Throws R6'1" 185 lbBorn 1988 Osaka, JapanDebut 2016Team DET

Projections

Season	BF	K%	BB%	HR%	1B%	XBH%	PITCH+
2026	181	18.6	7.3	3.60	20.4	6.71	95.7
2027							99.7
2028							101.8

Projected rates are per plate appearance or batter faced; counting stats scale with projected playing time. Statcast measurements inform these projections as inputs and are reported as measurements, not projected.

Most similar through age 37

His ten closest age-37 comparables averaged 83 PITCH+ the next season; 5 of 10 played. Averages cover only the players who got a next season, which is why the played count matters.

#	Player	Through	PITCH+ then	Next season	Next PA / BF
1	Corey Kluber	2023	108.2	did not play
2	Elmer Dessens	2008	99.8	110.5	130
3	Chris Capuano	2016	96.7	did not play
4	Barry Zito	2015	98.5	did not play
5	Johnny Cueto	2023	104.4	66.4	50
6	Ian Kennedy	2022	98.5	92.6	75
7	Chris Young	2016	104.1	68.4	148
8	Chris Carpenter	2012	112.5	did not play
9	Kyle Lohse	2016	99.1	did not play
10	Randy Wolf	2014	96.9	74.9	161

Batting

Year	Team	G	PA	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	HIT+
2025	DET	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2024	DET	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2023	MIN	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2021	MIN	23	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0.333	0.333	0.333	0.667	85.3
2020	MIN	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2019	LAD	41	61	3	12	2	0	6	0	13	0.250	0.250	0.292	0.542	40.2
2018	LAD	41	40	0	3	0	0	0	0	9	0.094	0.094	0.094	0.188	-65.2
2017	LAD	30	44	2	5	1	0	4	0	3	0.128	0.128	0.154	0.282	-36.9
2016	LAD	35	66	5	7	1	1	4	1	16	0.123	0.138	0.193	0.331	-18.2
Career		238	215	12	28	4	1	14	1	42	0.156	0.161	0.196	0.357	-12.3

Pitching

Year	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	BF	HR	BB	SO	PITCH+
2027 proj									181				99.7
2026*									0
2025	DET	0	0	7.88	7	0	0	8.0	43	1	6	8	78.7	98.1	76.7
2024	DET	3	7	6.09	29	17	0	112.3	485	22	31	96	86.8	101.1	87.8
2023	MIN	6	8	4.23	21	20	0	104.3	428	17	28	117	104.1	99.0	103.1
2021	MIN	6	5	4.66	21	21	0	106.3	453	16	32	113	96.7	102.5	99.1
2020	MIN	6	1	2.70	11	11	0	66.7	248	9	10	80	131.4	105.5	136.9
2019	LAD	10	8	4.04	37	26	3	153.7	624	22	51	169	114.6	101.2	115.7
2018	LAD	8	10	3.81	39	20	2	125.3	532	13	43	153	102.5	99.7	102.3
2017	LAD	13	6	4.22	29	25	1	134.3	557	22	34	140	106.3	103.9	110.2
2016	LAD	16	11	3.48	32	32	0	175.7	716	20	50	179	110.4	101.7	112.1
Career		68	56	4.20	226	172	6	986.7	4086	142	285	1055	105.4		107.0

Statcast

Year	PA	EV	LA	HardHit%	Whiff%	Chase%	xBA	xSLG	xwOBA	Sprint
2021	4	84.7	32.1	33.3	16.7	0.0	0.174	0.187	0.158
2019	61	82.8	7.8	8.3	18.3	55.1	0.223	0.255	0.210	24.6
2018	40	79.5	8.4	3.4	19.1	39.7	0.094	0.112	0.095	20.5
2017	44	76.5	1.3	4.9	22.3	54.7	0.138	0.169	0.135	24.8
2016	66	80.9	13.0	0.0	23.2	48.5	0.144	0.179	0.150	24.5

Fielding

Year	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Runs saved
2025	DET	P	7	8	1	0	0	0	1.000	-0.1
2024	DET	P	29	112	13	10	2	3	0.920	+0.6
2023	MIN	P	21	104	2	2	1	0	0.800	-0.5
2021	MIN	P	21	106	6	10	1	2	0.941	+1.4
2020	MIN	P	11	67	1	11	1	0	0.923	+1.7
2019	LAD	P	37	154	11	18	1	3	0.967	+0.9
2018	LAD	P	39	125	4	18	1	1	0.957	-0.2
2017	LAD	P	29	134	11	15	3	3	0.897	+2.7
2016	LAD	P	32	176	17	24	3	4	0.932	+1.5

Runs saved covers the Statcast era; for catchers it includes framing.

Minor leagues

Year	Level	Team	Side	PA / BF	Line	AVG / ERA
2025	AAA	Iowa Cubs	Pit	249	57.1 IP, 18% K	5.99
2025	AAA	Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders	Pit	177	42.2 IP, 21% K	4.69
2025	AAA	nan	Pit	426	100.0 IP, 19% K	5.40
2023	AAA	St. Paul Saints	Pit	55	13.1 IP, 31% K	2.06
2017	A+	Rancho Cucamonga Quakes	Pit	21	4.0 IP, 5% K	2.25

Splits

Year	vs LHP	vs RHP	Home	Away
2021		0.300		0.300
2019	0.300	0.226	0.256	0.221
2018	0.069	0.053	0.060	0.060
2017	0.113	0.167	0.142	0.169
2016	0.150	0.172	0.194	0.145

wOBA by split, from pitch level data, 2015 on. For pitchers the split is the batter side faced.

Postseason batting

Year	G	AB	H	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2020	1	0	0
2019	4	0	0
2018	8	0	0
2017	9	1	0	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000
2016	3	2	1	0.500	0.500	0.500	1.000
Career	25	3	1	0.333	0.333	0.333	0.667

Postseason pitching

Year	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	H	HR	BB	SO	WHIP
2023	0	0	6.75	2	0	4.0	6	0	3	4	2.25
2020	0	0	0.00	1	1	5.0	2	0	3	5	1.00
2019	0	0	0.00	4	0	4.7	1	0	0	7	0.21
2018	0	0	4.05	8	0	6.7	9	0	3	10	1.80
2017	2	0	0.84	9	0	10.7	5	1	2	10	0.66
2016	0	1	6.75	3	3	10.7	12	1	7	12	1.78
Career	2	1	3.24	27	4	41.7	35	2	18	48	1.27

Salaries

Year	Team	Salary
2016	LAD	$3,125,000

Public salary records run through 2016; current contract data is on the roadmap.