is a professional

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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 last played professionally for the

Chunichi Dragons The are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. They have won the Central League pennant nine times (most recently in 2011) ...

Professional career

In the 2015 off-season he along with team mates Tomohiro Hamada, Shuhei Takahashi, Shota Tomonaga and

Junki Kishimoto is a Japanese baseball player. He played professionally as a pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons in Nippon Professional Baseball. Professional career Chunichi Dragons In the 2015 off-season, Kishimoto and his team mates, Iori Katsura, Shuhei Ta ...

were loaned to the Taiwanese winter league

External links

NPB.com

References

1991 births Living people Baseball people from Osaka Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball catchers People from Higashisumiyoshi, Osaka Chunichi Dragons players {{Japan-baseball-catcher-stub