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Kenta Maeda

1988 - Today

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Kenta Maeda (前田 健太, Maeda Kenta; born April 11, 1988) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher in the Chicago Cubs organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Minnesota Twins, and Detroit Tigers, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Maeda debuted with the Carp in 2008. He won the Eiji Sawamura Award in 2010 and 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kenta Maeda is the 63rd most popular baseball player (down from 61st in 2019), the 3,127th most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,409th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Baseball Player.

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Kenta Maeda ranks 63 out of 91. Before him are Mookie Betts, Iván Rodríguez, Hyun-jin Ryu, Mike Trout, Johan Santana, and Jim Thome. After him are Max Scherzer, Paul Goldschmidt, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Kirby Puckett, Giancarlo Stanton, and Tim Lincecum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Kenta Maeda ranks 532. Before him are Bakary Koné, Go Yo-han, Thomas Kraft, Jade Ewen, Elnur Mammadli, and Jorge Maqueda. After him are Luiza Gega, Maksim Mikhaylov, Juraj Sagan, Jonathan Tehau, Simon Schempp, and Ilya Ilyin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kenta Maeda ranks 3,134 out of 6,245. Before him are Sara Takanashi (1996), Akiko Morigami (1980), Takuma Sugano (1980), Teruki Tabata (1979), Hideo Yoshizawa (1971), and Tatsuma Yoshida (1974). After him are Katsutoshi Domori (1976), Kento Momota (1994), Yukinori Miyabe (1968), Yoshie Takeshita (1978), Naoko Kawakami (1977), and Satoshi Miyagawa (1977).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among baseball players born in Japan, Kenta Maeda ranks 9. Before him are Hideo Nomo (1968), Shohei Ohtani (1994), Hideki Matsui (1974), Yu Darvish (1986), Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), and Koji Uehara (1975). After him are Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1998), and Jung-hoo Lee (1998).

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