Kosuke Fukudome
Kosuke Fukudome came into the league in 2008 for the Chicago Cubs (CHN) and actually played for the All Star team that year. The Cubs must have liked his Japan Central League numbers and gambled on him being able to hit MLB pitching. He had a good first half 2008 to make him an all star but floundered towards the end of the season to post an average 0.1 WAA. MLB pitchers must have found his weakness because he kept getting worse every year thereafter. He went from posting a colossal 11.4 for jcl in 2006 to being washed out of MLB more or less in 2011. You can really see his trend following the WAA figure from year to year.
Although the Cubs didn’t have this data model but probably had their own of some kind, they clearly hoped for perhaps 1/2 his 2006 season in the transfer which would have made him a very valuable player for their team.
Note: I don’t have data on jcl for seasons before 1999.
| Year | WAA | BA/IP | OBP/ERA | PA/G | RBI/W | R/L | Name_Tm | BAT/PITCH |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 0.8 | 0.284 | 0.359 | 526 | 52 | 76 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Chunichi_Dragons_XYZ_jcl | BAT |
| 2000 | 1.2 | 0.253 | 0.350 | 368 | 42 | 50 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Chunichi_Dragons_XYZ_jcl | BAT |
| 2001 | 1.3 | 0.251 | 0.352 | 442 | 56 | 51 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Chunichi_Dragons_XYZ_jcl | BAT |
| 2002 | 2.9 | 0.343 | 0.406 | 608 | 65 | 85 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Chunichi_Dragons_XYZ_jcl | BAT |
| 2003 | 6.6 | 0.313 | 0.401 | 617 | 96 | 107 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Chunichi_Dragons_XYZ_jcl | BAT |
| 2004 | 5.0 | 0.277 | 0.367 | 404 | 81 | 61 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Chunichi_Dragons_XYZ_jcl | BAT |
| 2005 | 7.4 | 0.328 | 0.430 | 612 | 103 | 102 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Chunichi_Dragons_XYZ_jcl | BAT |
| 2006 | 11.0 | 0.351 | 0.438 | 578 | 104 | 117 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Chunichi_Dragons_XYZ_jcl | BAT |
| 2007 | 4.3 | 0.294 | 0.443 | 348 | 48 | 64 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Chunichi_Dragons_XYZ_jcl | BAT |
| 2008 | 0.1 | 0.257 | 0.359 | 590 | 58 | 79 | Kosuke_Fukudome_CHN | BAT |
| 2009 | -0.9 | 0.259 | 0.375 | 603 | 54 | 79 | Kosuke_Fukudome_CHN | BAT |
| 2010 | -0.9 | 0.263 | 0.371 | 429 | 44 | 45 | Kosuke_Fukudome_CHN | BAT |
| 2011 | -3.3 | 0.273 | 0.374 | 345 | 13 | 33 | Kosuke_Fukudome_CHN | BAT |
| 2011 | -1.0 | 0.249 | 0.300 | 258 | 22 | 26 | Kosuke_Fukudome_CLE | BAT |
| 2012 | -0.8 | 0.264 | 0.429 | 182 | 16 | 17 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Charlotte_Knights_CHA_int | BAT |
| 2012 | -0.7 | 0.264 | 0.429 | 182 | 16 | 17 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Scranton/Wilkes-Barre_Yankees_NYA_int | BAT |
| 2012 | -0.6 | 0.171 | 0.294 | 51 | 4 | 2 | Kosuke_Fukudome_CHA | BAT |
| 2013 | -0.6 | 0.195 | 0.291 | 175 | 26 | 17 | Kosuke_Fukudome_Hanshin_Tigers_XYZ_jcl | BAT |