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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 ...

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. He has played in

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) for the

Hanshin Tigers The Hanshin Tigers (Japanese: 阪神タイガース ''Hanshin Taigāsu'') are a Nippon Professional Baseball team playing in the Central League. The team is based in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and is owned by Hanshin Electric Railway ...

Career

selected Ito with the first selection in the 2011 NPB draft. On March 30, 2012, Ito made his NPB debut. On December 2, 2020, he become a free agent.

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NPB stats
1989 births Living people Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Asian Games medalists in baseball Baseball players at the 2010 Asian Games Baseball people from Aichi Prefecture Hanshin Tigers players Japanese baseball players Keio University alumni Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games National baseball team players Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders People from Seto, Aichi {{Japan-baseball-outfielder-stub