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Yu Darvish

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Farid Yu Darvish Sefat (ダルビッシュ・セファット・ファリード・有, Darubisshu Sefatto Farīdo Yū; born August 16, 1986), more commonly known as Yu Darvish (ダルビッシュ 有), is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Chicago Cubs, and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. He also pitched for Japan in several international tournaments, including the 2008 Olympics, 2009 World Baseball Classic (WBC), and 2023 WBC. Darvish was considered by many to be the best pitcher in Japan prior to his arrival in MLB in 2012. In his first MLB season, Darvish finished third in the American League (AL) Rookie of the Year balloting. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Yu Darvish is the 49th most popular baseball player (down from 45th in 2024), the 2,277th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,858th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Baseball Player.

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Yu Darvish ranks 49 out of 91. Before him are Hideki Matsui, Edgar Martínez, Albert Pujols, Hank Greenberg, David Ortiz, and Pedro Martínez. After him are Daisuke Matsuzaka, Roy Halladay, Jose Canseco, Koji Uehara, Mike Piazza, and Clayton Kershaw.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, Yu Darvish ranks 301. Before him are Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon, Bauke Mollema, Sergio Rodríguez, Engin Öztürk, Dayana Mendoza, and Blerim Džemaili. After him are Nabil Dirar, Takashi Nishihara, Peter Pekarík, Mary-Kate Olsen, Özge Özpirinçci, and Hideaki Ikematsu.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yu Darvish ranks 2,277 out of 6,245. Before him are Atsuhiro Miura (1974), Nobutoshi Canna (1968), Hajime Kanzaka (1964), Shinya Yabusaki (1978), Yoko Kamio (1966), and Katsura Hoshino (1980). After him are Phyllis A. Whitney (1903), Yoshiyuki Hasegawa (1969), Hayato Suzuki (1982), Hirofumi Yoshimura (1975), Takashi Nishihara (1986), and Masato Ishida (1983).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among baseball players born in Japan, Yu Darvish ranks 6. Before him are Sadaharu Oh (1940), Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Hideo Nomo (1968), Shohei Ohtani (1994), and Hideki Matsui (1974). After him are Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), Koji Uehara (1975), Masahiro Tanaka (1988), Hiroki Kuroda (1975), Kenta Maeda (1988), and Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1998).

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