is a professional Japanese

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

player. He plays

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("Pitch (baseball), pitches") the Baseball (ball), baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of out (baseball), retiring a batter (baseball), batter, ...

for the Niigata Albirex Baseball Club.

External links

NPB.com
1980 births Living people Baseball people from Yokohama Japanese baseball players Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers Seibu Lions players Saitama Seibu Lions players Yokohama DeNA BayStars players Japanese baseball coaches Nippon Professional Baseball coaches {{Japan-baseball-pitcher-stub