It’s finally official. Masahiro Tanaka is no longer a Yankee.
Tanaka pitched seven seasons in pinstripes going 78-46 with a 3.74 ERA. During that span, his 18.9 WAR was the 19th highest in all of baseball among starters and his 1.13 WHIP was 18th best.
How about some more Tanaka stats? During his time in the majors, Tanaka led the league in percentage of unidentified pitches, throwing them 0.6 percent of the time per Fangraphs. He also threw the third-highest percentage of sinker/split-finger pitches at 26.7 percent, behind only Jorge De La Rosa (32.0 percent) and Matt Shoemaker (27.