Yuhei Nakamura
Japanese baseball player
Baseball player
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 Nakamura in 2011 at Yokohama Stadium | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tokyo Yakult Swallows – No. 27 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Catcher | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: (1990-06-17) 17 June 1990 (age 34) Ōno, Fukui, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
| debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 October, 2009, for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through 2023 season) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .243 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hits | 905 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| RBIs | 347 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Yuhei Nakamura (中村 悠平, Nakamura Yūhei, born 17 June 1990) is a Japanese professional baseball player. He plays catcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Career
Nakamura was selected to the 2018 NPB All-Star game [jp].[1] In the 2021 Japan Series, he batted 7-for-22 (a team-best .318 average) with three RBIs and threw out a couple of base-runners to win the Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award.[2][3][4]
International career
Nakamura appeared in 5 games for Japan in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, winning gold.[5]
References
- ^ "マイナビオールスターゲーム2018 出場者". NPB.jp 日本野球機構 (in Japanese). 3 July 2018.
- ^ Coskrey, Jason (28 November 2021). "Steady MVP Yuhei Nakamura guides Swallows to Japan Series title". The Japan Times. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ^ "Baseball: Shingo Kawabata pinch-hit drives Swallows to Japan Series title". Kyodo News. 27 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ Armstrong, Jim (28 November 2021). "BASEBALL: Swallows Cap Remarkable Turnaround With Japan Series Victory Over Buffaloes". japan-forward.com. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
Swallows catcher Yuhei Nakamura was named Japan Series MVP. He was credited for his solid hitting (a team-best .318 average against the Buffaloes) and for leading the pitching staff in the Japanese Fall Classic.
- ^ "Team Japan delivers record ratings during WBC". www.sportsbusinessjournal.com. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB.com
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Tokyo Yakult Swallows current roster
- 12 Taichi Ishiyama
- 14 Kōta Nishidate
- 15 Hikaru Yamashita
- 16 Juri Hara
- 17 Noboru Shimizu
- 18 Yasunobu Okugawa
- 19 Masanori Ishikawa
- 20 Naofumi Kizawa
- 21 Kōjirō Yoshimura
- 24 Tomoya Hoshi
- 26 Taichi Yamano
- 28 Kengo Matsumoto
- 29 Yasuhiro Ogawa
- 34 Kazuto Taguchi
- 35 Yuki Ishihara
- 37 Elvin Rodríguez
- 39 José Espada
- 40 Hirotoshi Takanashi
- 41 Daichi Shibata
- 43 Daiki Yamamoto
- 44 Hiroki Ohnishi
- 45 Reiji Kozawa
- 47 Keiji Takahashi
- 48 Yuto Kanakubo
- 49 Shinya Kayama
- 52 Yūya Onaka
- 53 Hiroki Hasegawa
- 54 Cy Sneed
- 56 Takumi Sakamoto
- 58 Kosuke Sakaguchi
- 61 Tetsu Miyagawa
- 62 Hyuga Takeyama
- 68 Shōta Maruyama
- 69 Ryuta Konno
- 99 Miguel Yajure
- 27 Yuhei Nakamura
- 30 Akihisa Nishida
- 32 Naoki Matsumoto
- 33 Sōma Uchiyama
- 57 Yudai Koga
- 65 Kyo Suzuki
- 93 Seiya Hashimoto
- 00 Yoshihiro Akahane
- 1 Tetsuto Yamada
- 5 Shingo Kawabata
- 7 Hideki Nagaoka
- 10 Takeshi Miyamoto
- 13 José Osuna
- 36 Ruito Nishimura
- 38 Takumi Kitamura
- 46 Kengo Ohta
- 50 Keigo Kitamura
- 55 Munetaka Murakami
- 59 Kōtarō Komori
- 60 Ryusei Takeoka
- 63 Shu Masuda
- 66 Taiki Mitsumata
- 67 Ryūi Ito
- 0 Hidetaka Namiki
- 3 Haruki Nishikawa
- 4 Kazuya Maruyama
- 9 Yasutaka Shiomi
- 23 Norichika Aoki
- 25 Domingo Santana
- 31 Kotaro Yamasaki
- 42 Ren Sawai
- 51 Taiki Hamada
- 64 Yukihiro Iwata
- 012 Hiroki Kondoh
- 013 Kōta Katekaru
- 015 Shōhei Numata
- 017 Shōsei
- 019 Shinnosuke Shimo
- 025 Felipe
- 026 Sōta Takano
coaching
- Manager: 22 Shingo Takatsu
- Head / Battery coach: 73 Motohiro Shima
- Pitching coaches: 89 Tomohito Ito, 98 Hirotoshi Ishii
- Chief Hitting coach: 78 Shoitsu Omatsu
- Hitting coaches: 74 Shigeru Sugimura, 87 Masakazu Fukukawa
- Infield defense and base running coach: 75 Ryosuke Morioka
- Outfield defense and base running / Strategy coach: 82 Yuichi Matsumoto
coaching
- Manager: 88 Takahiro Ikeyama
- Chief coach: 79 Noriyuki Shiroishi
- Pitching coaches: 81 Itsuki Shoda, 72 Chikara Onodera, 84 Kenichi Matsuoka
- Hitting coaches: 76 Ryuji Miyade, 85 Kazuhiro Hatakeyama
- Outfield defense and base running coach: 70 Yusuke Kawada
- Battery coach: 83 Atsushi Kinugawa
- Infield defense and base running / Development chief coach: 95 Katsuyuki Dobashi
- Development pitching coach: 92 Tetsuya Yamamoto
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