Yoshihisa Naruse

Japanese baseball player
Baseball player
Naruse Yoshihisa
Naruse pitching for Japan in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Tochigi Golden Braves – No. 60
Pitcher
Born: (1985-10-13) October 13, 1985 (age 38)
Tochigi, Japan
Bats: Left
Throws: Left
NPB debut
May 17, 2006, for the Chiba Lotte Marines
NPB statistics
(through 2016 season)
Win–loss96-76
Earned run average3.36
Strikeouts1188
Teams
  • Chiba Lotte Marines (20042014)
  • Tokyo Yakult Swallows (20152018)
  • Orix Buffaloes (2019)
  • Tochigi Golden Braves (2020–present)
Career highlights and awards
Last updated on: 9 January 2019

Yoshihisa Naruse (Japanese:成瀬 善久, born, October 13, 1985 in Tochigi, Japan) is a Japanese baseball player. He is a pitcher for the Nippon Professional Baseball league team Orix Buffaloes. He made his debut in the 2006 season. In 2007, Naruse had his best season as a professional in his short career. All season long he was competing with Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters superstar Yu Darvish for the Eiji Sawamura Award, the award for best pitcher in all of Japan. In 24 starts, Naruse was 16–1 with a 1.82 ERA, with 138 strikeouts and only 27 walks in 173 and 1/3 innings. Darvish, by comparison, was 15–5 in 26 starts, also compiling a 1.82 ERA, but not only did he throw more complete games than Naruse (12 for Darvish, 6 for Naruse), but Darvish also threw more innings (207 and 2/3), but he struck out more batters, with 210 punch-outs. The two ended up facing each other in the 2007 Pacific League Championship Series' deciding Game 5. Darvish triumphed over Naruse at Sapporo Dome, and the Fighters won Game 5 and the series 3–2, setting up a rematch of the 2006 Japan Series with the Chunichi Dragons. Naruse ultimately lost out to Darvish for the Sawamura Award in 2007.

Since that season, he has remained solid, and was selected to the 2008 Japanese National Olympic baseball team, where he was one of the best players of what turned out to be a disappointing tournament for Team Japan, as the heavily favored Japanese failed to medal. Naruse gave up no earned runs over 12 innings, outperforming his more famous counterpart Darvish.

In 2007, Naruse's number was 60, but the next season he had it changed to 17.

Over his career, Naruse has a record of 63–40, with an ERA of 3.02.

External links

  • Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
  • Career statistics - NPB.jp (in Japanese)
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Japan roster2008 Summer Olympics
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Chiba Lotte Marines 2010 Japan Series champions
1 Ikuhiro Kiyota
2 Makoto Imaoka
3 Saburo
6 Tadahito Iguchi
7 Tsuyoshi Nishioka
8 Toshiaki Imae (Japan Series MVP)
9 Kazuya Fukuura
10 Shoitsu Omatsu
11 Yuta Omine
12 Yuji Yoshimi
14 Tomohisa Otani
15 Hiroki Ueno
16 Hisao Heiuchi
17 Yoshihisa Naruse
19 Yuki Karakawa
21 Tatsuya Uchi
22 Tomoya Satozaki
25 Naotaka Takehara
27 Takuya Furuya
28 Tomohisa Nemoto
29 Shingo Ono
30 Yoshihiro Ito
31 Shunsuke Watanabe
32 Shunichi Nemoto
39 Masahiko Tanaka
40 Masato Watanabe
41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi
43 Toshio Saito
44 Hayden Penn
46 Hidetaka Kawagoe
48 Akichika Yamada
49 Yasuhiko Yabuta
52 Kim Tae-kyun
55 Takumi Kobe
58 Takeshi Aono
59 Kei Hosoya
65 Ryusuke Minami
66 Yoshifumi Okada
67 Naoki Matoba
69 Bill Murphy
Manager
78 Norifumi Nishimura
Coaches
Bench 76 Michio Aoyama
Hitting 75 Eiji Kanamori
Infield 72 Seiji Kamikawa
Outfield 73 Kenji Morozumi
Pitching 71 Takashi Nishimoto
Bullpen 79 Yuji Inoue
Catching 74 Kiyoshi Yamanaka
Coach 77 Kenji Yoshitsuru