Tatsuya Uchi (内 竜也, born July 13, 1985, in
Kawasaki, Kanagawa
is a Cities of Japan, city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama, and the List of cities in Japan, eight ...
) 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 ...
who is currently a free agent. 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
Chiba Lotte Marines.
Career
Chiba Lotte Marines selected Uchi with the first selection in the .
On June 15, 2004, Uchi made his NPB debut.
He selected . On November 4, 2020, Chiba Lotte announced that Uchi's contract would not be renewed for the 2021 season.
On December 2, 2020, he become a free agent.
References
External links
NPB
1979 births
Living people
Baseball people from Kanagawa Prefecture
Chiba Lotte Marines players
Honolulu Sharks players
Japanese expatriate baseball players in the United States
Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
Sportspeople from Kawasaki, Kanagawa
North Shore Honu players
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