Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish ダルビッシュ 有
Darvish pitching for the Texas Rangers in 2012 Spring Training
Texas Rangers – No. 11
Starting pitcher
Born: (1986-08-16) 16 August 1986 (age 30) Habikino, Osaka, Japan
Bats: Right Throws: Right
Professional debut
NPB: 15 June, 2005, for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
MLB: 9 April, 2012, for the Texas Rangers
NPB statistics
Win–loss record	93–38
Earned run average	1.99
Strikeouts	1,259
MLB statistics (through 2016 season)
Win–loss record	46–30
Earned run average	3.29
Strikeouts	812
WHIP	1.18
Teams
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2005–2011) Texas Rangers (2012–2014, 2016–present)
Career highlights and awards
NPB 2× Pacific League MVP (2007, 2009) 2007 Eiji Sawamura Award Japan Series champion (2006) 3× Pacific League strikeout title (2007, 2010, 2011) 2× Pacific League ERA title (2009, 2010) 2× Pacific League Best Nine Award (2007, 2009) 2× Pacific League Mitsui Golden Glove Award (2007, 2008) 2006 Asia Series MVP 5× NPB All-Star (2007–2011) 2007 Pacific League Climax Series MVP MLB 3× All-Star (2012–2014) AL strikeout leader (2013) MLB Record 1.000 Career Fielding percentage as a Pitcher

Yu Darvish

Medal record
Representing  Japan
Men's Baseball
World Baseball Classic
	2009 Los Angeles	Team
Asian Baseball Championship
	2007 Taichung	Team

Yu Darvish (Japanese: ダルビッシュ 有, Hepburn: Darubisshu Yū^?, born 16 August 1986) is a Japanese starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Darvish pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team.

He was considered by many to be the best pitcher in Japanese professional baseball prior to his arrival in Major League Baseball in 2012. In his first MLB season, Darvish finished third in the American League (AL) Rookie of the Year balloting. The next season, he finished second in the AL Cy Young Award vote as he led the Major Leagues in strikeouts with 277 and finished fourth in the AL in earned run average (ERA) at 2.83. On 6 April 2014, Darvish reached the 500 strikeout mark in fewer innings pitched than any starting pitcher in MLB history.

Darvish was born Sefat Farid Yu Darvish (ダルビッシュ・セファット・ファリード・有^?) in Habikino, Osaka, to an Iranian father, Farsad Darvishsefat, and a Japanese mother, Ikuyo. His parents met at Eckerd College, a liberal arts school in St. Petersburg, Florida, where his father played for the college soccer team (Also internationally). His grandfather owned a travel agency in Iran, and decided to send his son Farsad to the United States in 1977 to attend high school in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he also raced competitively in .