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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 who is a free agent. 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 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kenta Maeda is the 73rd most popular baseball player (down from 63rd in 2024), the 3,255th most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,408th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Baseball Player.

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Kenta Maeda ranks 73 out of 91. Before him are Iván Rodríguez, Hyun-jin Ryu, Freddie Freeman, Mike Trout, Johan Santana, and Jim Thome. After him are Manny Machado, Max Scherzer, Paul Goldschmidt, Trevor Bauer, Barry Larkin, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Kenta Maeda ranks 545. 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 3,262 out of 6,245. Before him are Yui Mizuno (1999), Kohei Saito (1987), Teruki Tabata (1979), Merle Dandridge (1975), Hideo Yoshizawa (1971), and Tatsuma Yoshida (1974). After him are Katsutoshi Domori (1976), Yūko Gotō (1975), Kento Momota (1994), Yukinori Miyabe (1968), Yoshie Takeshita (1978), and Naoko Kawakami (1977).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among baseball players born in Japan, Kenta Maeda ranks 11. Before him are Hideki Matsui (1974), Yu Darvish (1986), Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), Koji Uehara (1975), Masahiro Tanaka (1988), and Hiroki Kuroda (1975). After him are Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1998), and Jung-hoo Lee (1998).

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