Yuji Nishino (西野勇士, born March 6, 1991) is a Japanese

professional baseball Professional baseball is organized baseball in which players are selected for their talents and are paid to play for a specific team or club system. It is played in baseball league, leagues and associated farm teams throughout the world. Mod ...

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 Chiba Lotte Marines 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 ...

(NPB). Nishino was added to the Japanese baseball team's roster for the

2014 Major League Baseball Japan All-Star Series The 2014 MLB Japan All-Star Series was the eleventh edition of the MLB Japan All-Star Series, a best-of-five series between the All-Star team from Major League Baseball (MLB) and, for the first time in series history, the national team Samurai ...

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Living people 1991 births Baseball people from Toyama Prefecture Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Chiba Lotte Marines players {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub