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Tatsuya Imai

Tatsuya Imai — 6-4, 4.93 ERA. The model's read on his matchups, graded in the open.

Last scored board
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No game on the current slate
Season line · ERA
4.93
6-4 · 97 K, 1.42 WHIP
Games graded
23
this season, box-score final
Tatsuya Imai
PBats RThrows RHouston Astros

Last scored matchup

Tatsuya isn't on today's slate. He was last scored 7 days ago, at home against Chicago White Sox on Wednesday, September 30, 2026. This page refreshes with new projections as soon as he's back in a lineup.

Season line

15 starts, 6-4, 4.93 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, 76.2 innings. He's struck out 97 over that span, against 51 walks. This is the baseline the matchup adjusts from — the model starts here and then asks what the specific lineup he's facing does to strikeout arms, how the park plays, and how deep he's likely to go.

He throws right-handed

Tatsuya throws right-handed, which is the ordinary case and means fewer wild swings in the lineup he faces. Opposing managers aren't restacking against him the way they would a left-hander, so his projection moves more on the quality of the lineup than on its handedness. What does move it: how deep he's been going lately, and whether the lineup in front of him strikes out.

His last 5 starts

Tatsuya has 14 strikeouts in 9.0 innings across his last 5 starts, a 14.0 K/9, with a 2.00 ERA over that stretch and 7 walks. Strikeouts are the one pitcher market where our model has found real, graded room — projected workload and the specific lineup he draws move that number more than a season-long rate does. Start-by-start detail is in the log below.

Strikeouts and control

Tatsuya has 97 strikeouts and 51 walks in 76.7 innings this season — 11.4 K/9 against 6.0 BB/9, a 1.9-to-1 ratio. That walk rate is the risk in every projection on him. Free passes run up pitch counts, and a short outing caps the strikeout and outs numbers no matter how favourable the lineup looks. His floor is genuinely lower than his stuff suggests.

What his floor looks like

Tatsuya has made 23 starts this season, averaging 3.3 innings with a 4.93 ERA across them. In the 12 starts we hold detailed lines for, he got through five or more innings 1 times. That ratio is the honest read on his floor, and it's what separates an arm worth projecting on the outs board from one whose good starts are unpredictable enough that the market prices them better than we do.

How long he goes

Tatsuya is averaging 2.3 innings a start across his last 8 outings, with a high of 3.0 and about 38 pitches a night. He's not going deep, and that caps the strikeout and outs projections no matter how good the matchup looks — you can't strike out hitters you don't face. Expected batters faced is one of the bigger inputs to his score for exactly this reason.

His best start in the log

Tatsuya's high-water mark was Tuesday, July 21, 2026 against MIA: 8 strikeouts over 6.0 innings, 1 earned run. One start doesn't set a projection — the model works off the blend of his recent work against the specific lineup in front of him — but it does show the ceiling when the matchup lines up.

How the model reads him

Every arm on the slate goes through the same math, Tatsuya included. Opposing lineup, handedness, expected batters faced, park, weather — weighted, combined, and normalized 0–100. We keep the weighting to ourselves and re-tune it weekly on real results. What we don't keep is the record: every projection here is graded against the box score at the line the market offered.

What we'd flag

Three caveats worth carrying. Not every player gets a posted line — book coverage runs to about 87% for confirmed starters, so a blank line is the market's silence, not ours. Lineup changes land late enough to strand a projection published hours earlier. And judging any of this on a single night is meaningless; the model is tuned on hundreds of settled outcomes.

Recent game log

DateOppIPKHERBB
Sunday, September 27@ ATH1.01000
Sunday, September 20vs ATL2.04000
Wednesday, September 16vs KC1.01001
Wednesday, September 9@ PHI2.03103
Tuesday, September 1vs CWS3.05223
Thursday, August 20vs LAA3.03222
Wednesday, August 12@ SF3.03302
Monday, August 3vs TOR3.05000
Monday, July 27@ LAA0.71124
Tuesday, July 21vs MIA6.08413
Tuesday, July 7@ WSH3.73423
Wednesday, July 1vs MIN1.32455

Tatsuya Imai — FAQ

Is Tatsuya Imai playing today?

Tatsuya Imai isn't in a confirmed lineup on the current slate, and was last scored on Wednesday, September 30, 2026. This page updates with fresh projections as soon as he's back in one.

How has Tatsuya Imai been pitching lately?

Over his last 5 starts, Tatsuya has 14 strikeouts in 9.0 innings, allowing 2 earned runs. Start-by-start detail is in the log on this page.

Are Tatsuya Imai's projections betting advice?

No. Every number on this page is a research signal from a statistical model, published alongside its graded record so you can judge it yourself. The model is re-tuned weekly and can be wrong on any given day. Nothing here is a guaranteed outcome. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).

Projections are a research signal from our model, graded against real box-score results — not betting advice. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).