debutyear statvalue statyear birth_date image_size team number |image statlabel debutteam name throws caption debutleague birth_place debutdate bats statleague position article_title
1999 2009 112 459 86 -- 62 3.01 1,376 17 -- 19 2.42 august 7 , 2015 3 april 1975 300px boston red sox 19 koji uehara on june 15 , 2013.jpg win record earned run average strikeouts saves -- loss record earned run average strikeouts win-loss yomiuri giants baltimore orioles koji uehara 上原 浩治 right uehara with the red sox in 2013 npb mlb neyagawa , osaka , japan march 29 april 8 right npb mlb pitcher koji uehara

koji uehara

a right-handed pitcher , uehara has a solid career strikeout rate , with 10.6 k/9 and an excellent walk rate at 1.2 bb/9 -lrb- until 2014 season -rrb- .
through the 2014 season , his career 8.96 k/bb is the best in mlb history for a player with at least 100 innings pitched .
uehara won the 2013 alcs mvp award , and closed the final game of the 2013 world series .
with his world series win , uehara became one of four players in history to have won both a world series and a world baseball classic .
