is a 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 ...

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 ...

. He pitched for the

Saitama Seibu Lions The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Seibu Railway, wh ...

and Yokohama BayStars of

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 ...

from 1998 through 2010.

External links

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Yoshihiro Doi, JapaneseBallPlayers.com
Living people 1976 births Baseball people from Saitama (city) Japanese expatriate baseball players in the United States Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Seibu Lions players Yokohama BayStars players Saitama Seibu Lions players Na Koa Ikaika Maui players Japanese baseball coaches Nippon Professional Baseball coaches {{japan-baseball-pitcher-stub