Yamamoto, Burleson, May, J. Lee, Jc. Young

Yamamoto continues to thrive … Yoshinobu Yamamoto (RHP, LA) has followed an outstanding 2025 campaign by posting a 2.65 ERA and 0.87 WHIP through 91 IP thus far in 2026. How are things under the hood?

Year	IP	ERA/xERA	BB%	K%	K-BB%	xBB%	SwK	Vel	GB/LD/FB	H%/S%	HR/F
2024	90	3.00/3.10	5%	28%	23%	6%	12.6%	95.4	47/20/31	32/75	9%
2025	173	2.49/3.04	8%	29%	21%	7%	13.0%	95.3	52/15/30	26/78	10%
2026	91	2.65/3.17	4%	24%	20%	6%	13.2%	95.8	48/17/32	25/75	12%

This is a terrific collection of skills:

• Though his K% is down from 2025, his SwK% has held steady and points to a touch of K% upside (27% xK%).
• Yamamoto’s BB% has improved to the 96th percentile in 2026. His xBB% (34% Ball%) doesn’t fully support it, but even if his BB% creeps toward xBB%, that’s still much better than the MLB average...

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