Ryōsuke Hirata
| Ryōsuke Hirata 平田良介 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 Hirata with the Chunichi Dragons | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 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.
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- Baseball people from Osaka
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