is a professional 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 tea ...

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 ...

for the Chunichi Dragons.

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1991 births Living people Baseball people from Wakayama Prefecture Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Chunichi Dragons players 2017 World Baseball Classic players {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub