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Yu Darvish

1986 - Today

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Faridun Yu Darvishsefat (ダルビッシュ・セファット・ファリード・有, Darubisshu Sefatto Farīdon Yū, born 16 August 1986), more commonly known as Yu Darvish (ダルビッシュ 有), is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). Darvish has also played in MLB for the Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Chicago Cubs and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. In international play, Darvish pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japan national baseball team.He was considered by many to be the best pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball prior to his arrival in Major League Baseball in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yu Darvish has received more than 4,180,573 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Yu Darvish is the 45th most popular baseball player (up from 49th in 2019), the 1,855th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,816th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Baseball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yu Darvishes by language

Over the past year Yu Darvish has had the most page views in the with 1,818,378 views, followed by English (376,688), and Chinese (96,651). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malay (440.86%), Malagasy (104.65%), and Swedish (61.66%)

Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Yu Darvish ranks 45 out of 91. Before him are Ernie Banks, Albert Pujols, Manny Ramirez, Hank Greenberg, Ken Griffey Jr., and Derek Jeter. After him are Greg Maddux, David Ortiz, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hyun-jin Ryu, Pedro Martínez, and Miguel Cabrera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, Yu Darvish ranks 239. Before him are Amaia Salamanca, Luigi Di Maio, Goran Dragić, Pedro León, Manuel da Costa, and Thomas McDonell. After him are Ireen Wüst, Iveta Mukuchyan, Demetrious Johnson, Justin Berfield, Nobuhiko Okamoto, and Mary-Kate Olsen.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yu Darvish ranks 1,855 out of 6,245. Before him are Kimiko Shiratori (1968), Arina Tanemura (1978), Miki Itō (1962), Taeko Kawasumi (1972), Chieko Asakawa (1958), and Sayaka Ohara (1975). After him are Yūko Minaguchi (1966), Toru Sano (1963), Miyuki Sawashiro (1985), Keiji Tamada (1980), Masanobu Ando (1975), and Gen Hoshino (1981).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among baseball players born in Japan, Yu Darvish ranks 6. Before him are Sadaharu Oh (1940), Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Hideo Nomo (1968), Shohei Ohtani (1994), and Hideki Matsui (1974). After him are Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), Koji Uehara (1975), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1998), and Kenta Maeda (1988).

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