Shintaro Fujinami is two different baseball players. The first player is an absolutely electric arm with eye-popping velocity, a smooth but violent delivery on the mound, and 10 years of a quality NPB track record. The other is a pitcher with one of the worst ERAs in the majors in 2023 and was relegated to a mop-up bullpen role. I wanted to dive into the numbers to try to understand why exactly “Fuji” has existed as such an enigma in his first year stateside.