# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dennis-sarfate
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:53:14.169Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dennis-sarfate"
name: "Dennis Sarfate"
slug: "dennis-sarfate"
description: "Dennis Scott Sarfate is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Houston Astros, and Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, Saitama Seibu Lions, and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). While an average reliever in MLB, Sarfate became one of the greatest closers in NPB history after moving his career overseas. Sarfate holds several NPB records, including most saves in a season and most by a foreign-born pitcher. As of 2020, his 234 career saves rank fifth-most in NPB history. He is a 3× NPB All-Star, a 3× Pacific League saves leader, a 5× Japan Series Champion, won the Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award, won the Pacific League MVP Award, and won the Matsutaro Shoriki Award."
tagline: "American baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/00063776_Dennis_Sarfate.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1981-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.148166666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/dsarfate"
    handle:    "dsarfate"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/dsarfate/"
    handle:    "dsarfate"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/dsarfate58"
    handle:    "dsarfate58"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Sarfate"
    title: "Dennis Sarfate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA"
    title: "دينيس سارفات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Sarfate"
    title: "Dennis Sarfate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%B9%E5%B0%BC%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E8%96%A9%E7%88%BE%E6%B3%95%E7%89%B9"
    title: "丹尼斯·薩爾法特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%86"
    title: "デニス・サファテ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EB%8B%88%EC%8A%A4_%EC%82%AC%ED%8C%8C%ED%85%8C"
    title: "데니스 사파테"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3023195"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump