is a professional Japanese

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 ...

player. He plays

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

Yomiuri Giants The are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. They ...

Professional career

Yokohama DeNA BayStars

On October 25, 2012, Inoh was drafted by the

Yokohama DeNA BayStars The are a professional baseball team in the Japan, Japanese Central League. Their home field is Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yokohama. The team has been known by several names since becoming a professional team in 1950. It adopted its c ...

in the 2012 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. Inoh debuted with the BayStars in 2013. In May 2014, Ino was named the

Central League The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship plays against the winner of the Pacific League in the annual Japan Series. It currently consist ...

's most valuable pitcher of the month.

Yomiuri Giants

During the 2020 offseason, Inoh exercised his free agent option. And he decided to sign a two-year deal with the

worth up to 200 million yen.

References

External links

NPB.jp
1986 births Living people Baseball people from Tokyo Jobu University alumni Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Yokohama DeNA BayStars players Yomiuri Giants players {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub