OVERALL GRADE
B+ Impact
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PLAYER PROFILE
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Starting Pitcher • Los Angeles Dodgers
Bats:
Right
Throws:
Right
Age:
28
Height:
5' 10"
Weight:
176 lbs
COMPLETE BASEBALL EVALUATION
Player IQ
A role-aware evaluation of performance, history, durability, defensive responsibility, athletic value, decision-making proxies, and winning situational impact.
OVERALL PLAYER IQ
87 Out of 100BASEBALL ROLE
Starting Pitcher
P · Los Angeles Dodgers
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
COMPLETE PLAYER READ
The evaluation on Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto currently grades as a impact baseball player in the Baseball IQ 4.3 model. The strongest supported category is Durability (98/100), while Situational and Winning Impact (75/100) is the clearest current improvement area. Recent official form is stable, and the final evaluation combines production, role, history, durability, decision-making proxies, defense, athletic value, and situational impact.
WHAT THE MODEL USES
- Official current production and league context
- Career excellence, experience, awards and postseason history
- Durability and workload history
- Verified defensive and multi-position usage
- Baserunning and athletic-performance proxies
- Role-specific decisions, pitch recognition, command and pitchability proxies
- Situational and recent-form evidence
STRONGEST VERIFIED AREAS
- Durability
- Pitch IQ, Command and Pitchability
- Current Pitching Execution
DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES
- Development Trend
- Defense, Range and Arm Context
- Situational and Winning Impact
CATEGORY BREAKDOWN
Why the overall evaluation landed here
Last-X-games ERA/WHIP (2.53 / 0.87) is compared with the season line (2.53 / 0.87).
Current Pitching Execution
85
83th percentile context
Built from official MLB percentile context for run prevention, strikeout quality, and workload.
Pitching Experience and Proven Impact
75
Career history includes 448.7 innings, 488 strikeouts and verified postseason context. Official recognition includes 1 elite awards and 5 major awards or championship records across 9 supported entries. No verified MLB postseason pitching sample was available.
Consistency
76
Built from official game logs by comparing each appearance with the player's own per-game baseline.
Development Trend
75
Last-X-games ERA/WHIP (2.53 / 0.87) is compared with the season line (2.53 / 0.87).
Position and Role Value
84
Based on the official primary role/position (P) plus verified multi-position usage.
Durability
98
Built from official pitcher workload: 185.0 innings across 28 appearances.
Pitch IQ, Command and Pitchability
86
83th percentile context
Uses official walk suppression, WHIP, strike percentage, and strikeout-to-walk balance.
Defense, Range and Arm Context
75
Pitcher defensive separation is limited in the current official stat feed, so this category stays near neutral.
Situational and Winning Impact
75
Compares the opponent OPS allowed with runners in scoring position (.601) against the season baseline (.545).
Accuracy safeguard — IQDugout does not invent Leadership and clubhouse impact, Confidence and mental toughness, Unpublished private scouting measurements, Private clubhouse and leadership evaluations when verified evidence is unavailable. Those areas remain clearly labeled rather than receiving false precision.
2026 PITCHING
Pitching Statistics
ERA
2.53
#5 MLB
Top 9%
Earned runs allowed per nine innings.
WHIP
0.87
#2 MLB
Top 2%
Walks plus hits allowed per inning pitched.
W–L
14–9
W
#9 MLB
Top 1%
IP
185.0
#9 MLB
Top 1%
Innings pitched.
SO
182
#21 MLB
Top 2%
BB
42
SV
0
#258 MLB
Top 30%
G
28
VERIFIED CAREER CONTEXT
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UNDERSTAND THE PLAYER
Scout Report
ARCHETYPE
Starting Pitcher
Rate-stat observations use the official qualified MLB pitching pool. Supported counting-stat observations use all official season participants in that stat group. Percentiles are calculated by IQDugout from those pools.
DATA CONFIDENCE
High confidence
Officially qualified for the MLB pitcher comparison pool.
STRENGTHS
Verified indicators
- Run Prevention
- Baserunner Prevention
NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
Areas to monitor
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Strikeout Impact Relative focus
Why: 8.85 K/9 ranks #25 among 46 qualified MLB pitchers (47th percentile). It is the lowest supported league-relative category in this report, not a below-average classification.
VERSATILITY
No verified season position usage
- Primary role or position
- Starting Pitcher
- Position / role entries
- 0
- Verified secondary positions
- None in available season position data
This report summarizes available 2026 MLB statistics and official position information and available season usage. Non-qualified comparisons are directional, not official leaderboard ranks. Percentiles are calculated by IQDugout from official MLB comparison pools. Confidence reflects sample size, qualification, and supported comparison coverage. Versatility labels summarize verified position usage and are not league benchmarks. This is a current-data evaluation, not a projection.