Farid Yu Darvishsefat is a Japanese professional baseball starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball. He has also played in MLB for the Texas Rangers, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hokkaido Nippons-Ham Fighters. In international play, he pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team. He is the son of an Iranian mother, Ikuyo, and a Japanese father, Farsad Darvishingsefat.
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Farid Yu Darvishsefat is a Japanese professional baseball starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball. He has also played in MLB for the Texas Rangers, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hokkaido Nippons-Ham Fighters. In international play, he pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team. In his first MLB season, he finished third in the American League Rookie of the Year balloting. The next year, he led the Major Leagues in strikeouts with 277 and finished fourth in the AL in earned run average at 2. 83. On 6 April 2014, Darvishes reached the 500 strikeout mark in fewer innings pitched than any starting pitcher in MLB history. He was scouted by over 50 high schools while in junior high. He opted to attend Tohoku High School in Northern Sendai, a baseball powerhouse that produced players such as former Seattle Mariners and Yokohama BayStars closer Kazuhiro Sasaki and former BayStars and LA Dodgers reliever Takashi Saito. The Fighters were one of the few teams that chose not to sign him to the first round in exchange for signing a college or industrial league player prior to the 2004 NPB amateur draft. This enabled them to land him with their first-round pick in 17 November 2004. He made his professional debut later that season. In 2005, he was caught smoking in a pachinko parlor on an off-day during his first Spring training training, despite not being old enough to smoke nor not being able to gamble at the time.
The incident prompted his high school and the Fighters to suspend him under probation for an indefinite period and in order to participate in community service. In 2009, he received further publicity when he was suspended for his first professional season, taking the mound in the Spring of that year’s World Series for the Hiroshima Carp. In 2010, he became the first Japanese player to pitch in the World Series. In 2012, he made his MLB debut for the Rangers, and in 2013, he played for the Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs in the All-Star Game. He is the son of an Iranian mother, Ikuyo, and a Japanese father, Farsad Darvishingsefat, who played soccer for the Florida State University soccer team. He attended high school in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he also raced competitively in motocross. He led his team to the quarter-finals of the 85th National High School Baseball Championship in the summer of 2003, but gave up four runs to Joso Gakuin High School, the Ibaraki champions, in a complete game loss. He pitched 12 games and put up a 7–3 record with 87 strikeouts in 92 innings pitched and a 1. 47 ERA in his four national tournament appearances, and posted a1. 10 ERA for his highSchool career, striking out 375 in 332 1⁄3 innings.
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