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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 ...

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(NPB).

Career

On October 17, 2019, Takeuchi was selected as the 6th draft pick for the Chunichi Dragons at the and on 5 November signed a provisional contract with a ¥25,000,000 sign-on bonus and a ¥5,500,000 yearly salary. On November 26, 2020, Takeuchi re-signed with Dragons. On 8 October 2024, it was announced he had been released by the team.

References

External links

Dragons.jp
2001 births Living people Baseball people from Hokkaido Chunichi Dragons players Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Baseball people from Sapporo 21st-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub