Watch Hiroki Kuroda bid a tearful farewell to baseball in Japan Hiroki Kuroda enjoyed a very successful seven seasons in Major League Baseball -- winning 79 games (an average of 11 per year), compiling a 3.45 ERA and striking out nearly 1,000 batters. He was about as reliable a starter you could find -- even in the postseason, where he started five games (three for the Dodgers, two for the Yankees