is a Japanese former 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 ...

in Japan's

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 ...

. He played with the Chiba Lotte Marines from 2011 to 2012 and from 2014 to 2016.

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1985 births Living people People from Kazuno, Akita Baseball people from Akita Prefecture Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Chiba Lotte Marines players {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub