is a professional Japanese

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player. He most recently played

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for the Chunichi Dragons. He is currently a free agent.

Early career

In Hamada's senior year with Miyazaki Technical High School, he reached the spring koshien. As the team's

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, he pitched a full game for only two hits in the first round against Maebashi Technical High School but came up short in the second round against Kohei Arihara's Koryo High school conceding a run in the final inning in a walk-off loss. Following graduation he attended

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and in fall of his junior year in a game against Kyushu Institute of Technology he recorded a

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. In spring of his senior year, he guided his team to the best 4 of the Japan National Collegiate Baseball Championship and in the fall he appeared at the

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Baseball Tournament. He ended his university career with a 24–8 record in decisions. On 23 October 2014, he was selected as the second draft pick for the Chunichi Dragons at the

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where he was given the number 47 shirt.

Professional career

Chunichi Dragons

2015

On the 10 April 2015, Hamada was registered for the first team and on 19 April made his first team debut against the

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in the 8th inning where he gave up a career first

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to Takayoshi Noma followed by a succession of 5 hits resulting in 3 earned runs and leaving him in tears. This was the first time a rookie facing his first batter conceded a career first homerun to a fellow rookie. While there was much expectation over the development of Hamada, this would remain his only game of the season as he was relegated to the farm team for the remainder of the year. As a result of his and the team's poor performance, his contract was slashed by 25% to \7,500,000. In the 2015 off-season he along with teammates Iori Katsura, Shuhei Takahashi, Shota Tomonaga and

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were loaned to the Taiwanese winter league

2016

Hamada failed to make any appearances for the first team in the 2016 season with his contract being downgraded to a trainee contract for 2017.

References

External links

Dragons.jp

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamada, Tomohiro 1992 births Living people Baseball people from Miyazaki Prefecture Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Chunichi Dragons players People from Miyazaki (city)