Ryōsuke Hirata
| Ryōsuke Hirata 平田 良介 | |
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| File:CD-Ryosuke-Hirata-2.jpg Hirata with the Chunichi Dragons | |
| Chunichi Dragons – No. 79 | |
| Outfielder/Coach | |
| Born: March 23, 1988 Jōtō-ku, Osaka, Japan | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| NPB debut | |
| August 26, 2006, for the Chunichi Dragons | |
| Last NPB appearance | |
| September 17, 2022, for the Chunichi Dragons | |
| NPB statistics | |
| Batting average | .268 |
| Home runs | 105 |
| RBI | 484 |
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As coach
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| Career highlights and awards | |
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Ryōsuke Hirata (平田 良介, Hirata Ryōsuke; born March 23, 1988 in Jōtō-ku, Osaka, Japan) 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.
He is currently an outfield defense and baserunning coach for the Dragons.
Career
[edit | edit source]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]
In 2018, Hirata was selected for the 2018 NPB All-Star game.[3]
References
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External links
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- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB.com
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- Chunichi Dragons players
- Japanese baseball players
- Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
- Baseball people from Osaka
- People from Jōtō, Osaka
- 2015 WBSC Premier12 players
- 2017 World Baseball Classic players
- World Baseball Classic players of Japan
- Japanese baseball coaches
- Nippon Professional Baseball coaches
- Japanese baseball outfielder stubs