is a Japanese professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

for the Chiba Lotte Marines of the

Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning ''Professional Baseball''. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation ...

(NPB). He previously played for the

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles The , often shortened as the , are a baseball team based in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It has played in Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League since the team's formation in November 2004. The team is owned by the Internet shopping c ...

Career

On December 19, 2019, he was sent to Chiba Lotte Marines as compensation for

Daichi Suzuki (born March 10, 1967 in Narashino, Chiba) is a retired Japanese backstroke swimmer. He won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Swimming Suzuki developed the swimming technique called underwater dolphin kick or what is known as ...

, who signed with Rakuten as a free agent after the 2019 NPB season He was named an NPB All-Star in .

References

External links

NPB stats
1996 births Living people Chiba Lotte Marines players Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers People from Kurume Baseball people from Fukuoka Prefecture Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub