Found: Ryohei Tanaka’s Stats
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.Â
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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