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Ohtani is the youngest of three children. He has one older sister, Yuka, and one older brother, Ryuta , who is also an amateur baseball player in the Japanese Industrial League. [13] In Japan, Ohtani was known as a "yakyū shōnen" (野球少年; "baseball boy")—a kid who lives, eats and breathes baseball. [14]
A total of 81 Japanese-born [1] [2] players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, eleven are on existing MLB rosters.The first instance of a Japanese player playing in MLB occurred in 1964, when the Nankai Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) team, sent three exchange prospects to the United States to gain experience in MLB's minor league system.
The only other NPB player to have hit 600 or even more home runs is Katsuya Nomura with 657. Slugger Noboru Aota retired in 1959 as the Japanese professional baseball career leader with 265 career homers. [citation needed] He was surpassed in 1963 by Kazuhiro Yamauchi, the first Japanese professional baseball player to hit 300 home runs. [3 ...
Rank Player Hits 1 Isao Harimoto * : 3,085 2 Katsuya Nomura * : 2,901 3 Sadaharu Oh * : 2,786 4 Hiromitsu Kadota * : 2,566 5 Yutaka Fukumoto * : 2,543 5 Sachio Kinugasa
Otani signed with the Fighters nonetheless. Otani, with his ability to both pitch and hit, quickly became a star for the team. He was selected as an NPB all-star five times and was named Pacific League MVP in 2016. Behind Otani, the Fighters returned to the Japan Series in 2016, facing the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. After dropping the first two games ...
Ōtani (大谷), also romanized as Otani, Ootani or Ohtani, is a Japanese surname meaning "large valley". Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Shohei Ohtani ( 大谷 翔平 , born 1994) , Japanese baseball player
Most MLB homers by Japanese-born players. 1. Shohei Ohtani, 176 2. Hideki Matsui, 175 3. Ichiro Suzuki, 117 4. Kenji Johjima, 48 5. Tadahito Iguchi 44. Shohei Ohtani keeps hitting despite Ippei ...
Tomohisa Ōtani (大谷 智久, born February 14, 1985, in Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher who is currently a coach for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in his entire career with the NPB for the Marines.