Kenta Maeda
Japanese baseball player (born 1988) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kenta Maeda (前田 健太, Maeda Kenta, born April 11, 1988) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.
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Detroit Tigers – No. 18 | |||||||||||||||
Pitcher | |||||||||||||||
Born: (1988-04-11) April 11, 1988 (age 36) Tadaoka, Osaka, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||
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NPB: April 5, 2008, for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp | |||||||||||||||
MLB: April 6, 2016, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||||||||||||||
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Win–loss record | 97–67 | ||||||||||||||
Earned run average | 2.39 | ||||||||||||||
Strikeouts | 1,233 | ||||||||||||||
MLB statistics (through April 23, 2024) | |||||||||||||||
Win–loss record | 65–50 | ||||||||||||||
Earned run average | 3.97 | ||||||||||||||
Strikeouts | 968 | ||||||||||||||
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Maeda debuted with the Carp in 2008. He won the Eiji Sawamura Award in 2010 and 2015. After the 2015 season, the Carp posted Maeda to MLB and he signed an eight-year contract with the Dodgers. The Dodgers traded Maeda to the Twins before the 2020 season and he signed a two-year contract with the Tigers before the 2024 season.