Ryōsuke Hirata
Ryōsuke Hirata 平田良介 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Chunichi Dragons – No. 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Outfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born: | March 23, 1988||||||||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | ||||||||||||||||||||
NPB debut | ||||||||||||||||||||
2006, for the Chunichi Dragons | ||||||||||||||||||||
NPB statistics (through 2020 season) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Batting average | .271 | |||||||||||||||||||
Home runs | 104 | |||||||||||||||||||
RBI | 470 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Ryōsuke Hirata (平田 良介, Hirata Ryōsuke, born March 23, 1988 in Osaka) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He has played for the Dragons since 2006.
Career[]
Hirata 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]
He selected [3]
.References[]
- ^ "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 and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- NPB.com
Categories:
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Chunichi Dragons players
- Japanese baseball players
- Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
- Baseball people from Osaka
- 2015 WBSC Premier12 players
- 2017 World Baseball Classic players
- Japanese baseball outfielder stubs