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 t ...

player. He plays

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 is currently a free agent having previously played for 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) ...

. Mitsuma is a descendant of

Heian period The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese ...

poet, scholar and politician,

Sugawara no Michizane was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian Period of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet, particularly in Kanshi poetry, and is today revered in Shinto as the god of learning, . In the poem anthology '' Hyakunin Isshu'', he is know ...

through his mother.

Early career

He was the 3rd pick for the Dragons in the 2015 Development Draft. On 12 November 2015, he signed a development player contract with a ¥2,000,000 moving allowance and a ¥3,000,000 yearly salary.

Professional career

On 25 November 2016, due to positive performances in the Dragons farm team including being the teams' first day starter in the yearly Phoenix League, Mitsuma was awarded with a ¥4,400,000 full time contract being added to the first team roster.

References

External links

Dragons.jp

1992 births Living people Baseball people from Gunma Prefecture Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Chunichi Dragons players {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub