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| Tetsuya Utsumi | |||||||||||||||
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 Utsumi with the Yomiuri Giants | |||||||||||||||
| Yomiuri Giants – No. 77 | |||||||||||||||
| Pitcher / Coach | |||||||||||||||
| Born: (1982-04-29)April 29, 1982 (age 42) Kyoto, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
| May 25, 2004, for the Yomiuri Giants | |||||||||||||||
| Last NPB appearance | |||||||||||||||
| September 19, 2022, for the Saitama Seibu Lions | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through 2022 season) | |||||||||||||||
| Win–loss | 135-104 | ||||||||||||||
| ERA | 3.24 | ||||||||||||||
| Strikeouts | 1,519 | ||||||||||||||
| Teams | |||||||||||||||
| As player As coach | |||||||||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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Medals
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Tetsuya Utsumi (内海 哲也,Utsumi Tetsuya, born April 29, 1982 inKyoto, Japan) is a Japaneseprofessional baseball player for theSaitama Seibu Lions ofNippon Professional Baseball(NPB). He previously played for theYomiuri Giants.
In2000 NPB draft [jp],Orix BlueWave selected him with the first selection, but he did not sign, and he joinedTokyo Gas in theJapanese industrial leagues from 2000 to 2003.
In2003 NPB draft [jp],Yomiuri Giants selected him[1] and joined.
On December 20, 2018, he was sent toSaitama Seibu Lions as the human compensation from the earlier transferred forGinjiro Sumitani.[2][3]
He was selectedJapan national baseball team at the2009 World Baseball Classic and2013 World Baseball Classic.
And also, in a 2008 preseason exhibition game against theBoston Red Sox, Utsumi struck out 4 out of the 6 Red Sox batters he faced.
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.
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