Japanese baseball player
Baseball player
Tetsuya Utsumi Utsumi with the Yomiuri Giants
Pitcher / CoachBorn: (1982-04-29 ) April 29, 1982 (age 41) Kyoto, Japan May 25, 2004, for the Yomiuri Giants September 19, 2022, for the Saitama Seibu Lions Win–loss 135-104 ERA 3.24 Strikeouts 1,519
As player
As coach
Saitama Seibu Lions (2023 )
Yomiuri Giants (2024–present)
Tetsuya Utsumi (内海 哲也 Utsumi Tetsuya Kyoto, Japan ) is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played for the Yomiuri Giants .
Career
In 2000 NPB draft [jp ] , Orix BlueWave selected him with the first selection, but he did not sign, and he joined Tokyo Gas in the Japanese industrial leagues from 2000 to 2003.
In 2003 NPB draft [jp ] , Yomiuri Giants selected him[1]
On December 20, 2018, he was sent to Saitama Seibu Lions as the human compensation from the earlier transferred for Ginjiro Sumitani .[2] [3]
International career
He was selected Japan national baseball team at the 2009 World Baseball Classic and 2013 World Baseball Classic .
And also, in a 2008 preseason exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox , Utsumi struck out 4 out of the 6 Red Sox batters he faced.
Pitching style
Utsumi is a "junkball" pitcher, meaning that he does not have overpowering pitches. His fastball is usually in the 140 km/h (87 MPH) range, and he complements it with a slurve, a changeup, and a forkball. Utsumi relies on his control to get batters out, and it is usually pretty good, but when Utsumi misses his spots, that is when trouble finds him, usually in the form of home runs.
Yomiuri Giants current roster
Pitchers Catchers Infielders Outfielders Development pitchers
011 Naoki Kasashima 012 Katsunari Miura 013 Makoto Kyōmoto 015 Haruto Kawasaki 016 Takahiro Chiba 017 Riku Naraki 018 Motoya Kinoshita 019 Junki Sonoda 020 Natsuki Toda 021 Kenta Onuma 023 Tomoki Tamura 026 Yūsefu Yoshimura 028 Ryū Tomida 030 Yūsuke Yamasaki 034 Tessei Morimoto 035 Elvis Luciano 047 Eiji Kamouchi 056 Yūsuke Itō 057 Eury Ramos 063 Yūki Hanada Development catchers
006 Hayato Sakamoto 010 Ryōya Ōtsu 022 Keita Kameda 024 Kenki Maeda 069 Tetsu Hagiwara Development infielders
001 Ren Katoh 002 Ayumu Nakata 004 Gen Murayama 005 Yūya Tanoue 007 Kisara Utsunomiya 008 Hakuto Aizawa 025 Hiroto Okamoto 027 Rio Kitamura Development outfielders
003 Yamato Suzuki 009 Misaki Sasahara 031 Rui Mitsuka 033 Kota Hirayama 039 Soichiro Tateoka 044 Gen Ohshiro 051 Hidetora Funakoshi First squad Second squad Third squad Organizational
Japan roster – 2009 World Baseball Classic champions (2nd title)
Japan roster – 2013 World Baseball Classic
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