Ryōsuke Hirata (平田 良介, Hirata Ryōsuke, born March 23, 1988 in Osaka) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder. He last played for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Dragons over a 16-year period.
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| Chunichi Dragons | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Outfielder/Coach | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: March 23, 1988 Jōtō-ku, Osaka, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006, for the Chunichi Dragons | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through April 7, 2022) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .270 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 104 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| RBI | 477 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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He is currently an outfield defense and baserunning coach for the Dragons.
Career
editHirata attended Osaka Tōin High School and was a member of the team that advanced to the semi-finals of the 2005 national championships. and tied Kazuhiro Kiyohara's record of 5 home runs at the tournament. He hit a total of 70 home runs during his three years of high school. He was drafted by the Dragons in the first round of the 2005 rookie draft.[1]
In 2015, Hirata was made team captain of the Dragons marking the first time the Dragons had an appointed captain since Tōru Nimura in 1994.[2]
In 2018, Hirata was selected for the 2018 NPB All-Star game.[3]
References
edit- ^ "2005年 中日ドラゴンズ" [2005 Chunichi Dragons] (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 November 2015.
- ^ "中日平田が来季主将「谷繁監督を胴上げする」" [Chuinichi's Hirata to be next season's captain "I want to lift up Tanishige-kantoku in victory"]. 2015-11-26 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "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). July 3, 2018.
External links
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- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB.com
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