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Akinori Iwamura

Rays Career team 2007–2009
Number #1
Position Second Baseman
Bats Left
Throws Right
Age 47
Height 5' 9"
Weight 200 lbs
Birth Place Ehime, Japan
Born Feb 9, 1979

Key Insights

2010
One opponent brings the best out of him

Iwamura has hit .500/.615/.700 against Sidney Ponson in 13 plate appearances, his best line against anyone he has seen this often.

5 for 10 with 0 home runs and 2 strikeouts, against a .657 OPS median across his matchups.
This matchup ends in a strikeout more often than not

CC Sabathia has struck Iwamura out 5 times in 10 plate appearances, 50% of everything between them.

5 strikeouts in 10 plate appearances.
One club he looks forward to seeing on the schedule

Against the arms currently on the SEA, Iwamura has hit .450 and slugged .650 over 42 plate appearances, his best of any club.

18 hits, 0 home runs and 10 strikeouts, against a .359 slugging median across the clubs he has faced.
He cannot get the bat on this opponent's pitches

Iwamura swings through more against Chien-Ming Wang than against anyone else he has faced this often: 0% of the swings between them come up empty.

14 plate appearances between them. 100th percentile of the 22 matchups on his own record.
This opponent has his number every time they meet

Iwamura has hit .000/.000/.000 against Mike Mussina in 15 plate appearances, his worst line against anyone he has seen this often.

0 for 14 with 0 home runs and 5 strikeouts, against a .657 OPS median across his matchups.
Nobody has seen more of him than this opponent

No pitcher has seen Iwamura more often than Josh Beckett: 44 plate appearances, in which Iwamura has hit .275/.341/.400.

11 hits, 1 home run and 11 strikeouts across 44 plate appearances.

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Player Bio Data
DOB Feb 9, 1979
Birth Place Ehime, Japan
Height 5' 9"
Weight 200 lbs LBS
Bats/Throws Left/Right