How Yu Darvish's Range Factor Compares to Similar Players

Yu Darvish has posted a career Range Factor of .835, well below the league average of 3.19 — production that has significantly underperformed against league baselines. His best Range Factor season came in 2012, posting 1.14, well below the league average of 2.9 that year. The lowest point came in 2022 at .667, well below the league average of 2.61 that year. The Range Factor has trended upward over recent seasons. The figure has moved from .667 in 2023 to .813 in 2024 and .933 in 2025. The upward arc suggests continued forward momentum heading into 2026. Some season-to-season variance runs through the career line, but the career average has remained well below league norms across 12 seasons.

Yu Darvish Lifetime Range Factor

Stats similar to Range Factor for Yu Darvish
Yu Darvish
Range Factor
Career0.835
Season Avg.0.835
162 Game Avg.0.835
More InfoSee More

Yu Darvish Range Factor Per Season

Yu Darvish's Range Factor for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — National League, Hall of Fame, SP, Asia, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Yu Darvish Range Factor per season line chart

Yu Darvish Range Factor by Team

Yu Darvish's career Range Factor totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Yu Darvish career Range Factor by team bar chart

Yu Darvish Range Factor Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Yu Darvish's career Range Factor shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Yu Darvish Range Factor year-over-year waterfall chart

Yu Darvish Range Factor Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Yu Darvish's seasonal Range Factor alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Yu Darvish Range Factor distribution box chart versus comparable players

Yu Darvish Range Factor — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Yu Darvish's MLB career with Range Factor alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Yu Darvish Range Factor season-by-season breakdown table