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Hiroki Kuroda To Retire
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By Jeff Todd | October 18, 2016 at 9:25am CDT
Veteran right-hander Hiroki Kuroda has announced that he’ll retire at the
end of the season, as Japan’s Kyodo News reports. The seven-year major
league veteran has pitched in the Nippon Professional Baseball league for the
last two seasons upon returning to his homeland.
Kuroda, 41, is best known in these parts as a high-quality member of the
Dodgers and then the Yankees. But in Japan, he is famed for his long run with
the Hiroshima Carp — the organization he broke in with, excelled for, and
returned to after his run in the majors (spurning the Padres’ reported
efforts to keep him stateside).
Indeed, the Japanese star did not appear in the big leagues until his age-33
season. Of his twenty years of professional pitching, Kuroda spent 13 in the
NPB — all for the Carp. All told, he provided that organization with over
2,000 innings of 3.55 ERA pitching. And he has been even better since his
return, posting successive 2.55 and 3.09 ERA campaigns. He’ll hang up his
spikes after the team’s run through the Japan Series comes to a close.
“The Japan Series will be the end. I’ve decided to hang it up,” Kuroda
said. “I’ve been shown an excellent dream with an excellent team. And now I
want to go out with a smile on my face, all of us celebrating a championship
pouring beer on each other.”
In between his stints in Hiroshima, Kuroda excelled in the majors. He spurned
several other suitors to join the Dodgers for the 2008 campaign, initially
inking a three-year deal. From that point forward, Kuroda inked successive
one-year pacts — first returning to Los Angeles, then switching coasts to
join the Yankees on what turned out to be a trio of single-season deals (the
final two of which came after he declined qualifying offers).
Through it all, Kuroda was a model of consistency. He only completed one
campaign — his 2009 sophomore MLB season — with less than 31 starts. And he
never completed a year with an earned run average of more than 3.76.
Ultimately, Kuroda provided his two major league organizations with nearly
identical production: 699 innings of 3.45 ERA pitching with 6.7 K/9 against
2.1 BB/9 for the Dodgers, and 620 frames of 3.44 ERA ball with 6.7 K/9 and
1.9 BB/9 for the Yanks. Even as his fastball velocity dwindled, Kuroda’s
sinker/slider mix allowed him to steadily maintain his peripherals, and he
ended with a 48.6% groundball rate and even 10.0% swinging strike rate in the
majors.
In the aggregate, Kuroda earned just over $88MM as a major leaguer. And he is
currently the highest-paid player in Japan. But it’s hard to dispute that he
has delivered value at every stop along the way. MLBTR joins all those around
the game in congratulating Kuroda on his outstanding two decades as a
professional ballplayer, and in wishing him good fortune in his future
endeavors.
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备注：
1. 黑田博树宣布在日本大赛结束后高挂球鞋退休。
2. 黑田博树从美国返回日本后，最让人津津乐道的是他曾在2014年球季结束后，婉拒教士
队开出的$18MM/1YR合约，回到他职棒生涯首站──广岛鲤鱼队。
3. 黑田博树美日两大联盟的生涯共计20年，分别是13年在广岛鲤鱼、4年洛杉矶道奇与
3年纽约洋基，两大联盟主投超过3000局，并缴出3.51的ERA，而在日本广岛鲤鱼的最后两
年，他分别缴出2.55与3.09的ERA，本季更带领球队勇闯日本一。
4. 黑田博树：“日本大赛结束后我将决定要退休，我和这么棒的球队编织出梦想，现在
我想要带着笑容，和所有队友相互喷啤酒来庆祝夺得冠军”
5. 黑田博树著名在耐投与稳定性，在美国每年贡献31~32场先发，即便球速随着年龄而
下降，黑田的Sinker/Slider组合仍让他有所发挥，在MLB生涯滚地球率为48.6%、甚至有
10%的挥空率。
6. 黑田博树在美国通计薪水为$88MM(折合台币约27亿7500万)，而他今年$4.9MM/1YR的合
约是日本本季最高薪的球员。
7. 黑田博树7年美国大联盟通算成绩：
W - L ERA IP R ER SO BB ERA+ FIP WHIP
79 - 79 3.45 1319.0 564 505 986 292 115 3.61 1.172
8. 黑田博树13年日本职棒通算成绩：
W - L ERA IP R ER SO BB WHIP
124 - 105 3.55 2021.2 858 797 1461 504 1.246