Kenta Asakura (朝倉健太, born June 11, 1981) is a

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former professional

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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 ...

. Asakura played with the

Chunichi Dragons The are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. They have won the Central League pennant nine times (most recently in 2011) ...

from 2000 to 2015 and was employed as a pitching coach for the Dragons first team from 2016 to 2018.

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