Yasuhiko Yabuta
Yasuhiko Yabuta 薮田 安彦 | |||||||||||||||
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Pitcher | |||||||||||||||
Born: (1973-06-19) June 19, 1973 (age 51) Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
Professional debut | |||||||||||||||
NPB: May 31, 1996, for the Chiba Lotte Marines | |||||||||||||||
MLB: April 5, 2008, for the Kansas City Royals | |||||||||||||||
Last appearance | |||||||||||||||
MLB: October 4, 2009, for the Kansas City Royals | |||||||||||||||
NPB: October 6, 2012, for the Chiba Lotte Marines | |||||||||||||||
NPB statistics | |||||||||||||||
Win–loss record | 48–72 | ||||||||||||||
Earned run average | 3.81 | ||||||||||||||
Strikeouts | 710 | ||||||||||||||
Holds | 112 | ||||||||||||||
Saves | 67 | ||||||||||||||
MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
Win–loss record | 3–4 | ||||||||||||||
Earned run average | 7.14 | ||||||||||||||
Strikeouts | 34 | ||||||||||||||
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Yasuhiko Yabuta (薮田 安彦, Yabuta Yasuhiko, born June 19, 1973) is a Japanese former baseball pitcher.
Yabuta made his professional debut with the Marines in 1996, and spent 12 years with the organization. He competed in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and struck out Alex Rodriguez, Johnny Damon, and Derrek Lee. He served as a setup man for the Marines in 2007 recording a 4–6 record with a 2.73 ERA in 58 games. After the season, he declared his free agency and came to America to pursue a Major League Baseball career. On November 22, 2007, the Kansas City Star reported that the Kansas City Royals agreed with Yabuta on a two-year contract with a club option for 2010.[1]
Yabuta officially signed with the Royals on November 28, 2007. He signed a two-year, $6 million deal with the Kansas City Royals. The deal included a $4 million club option for a third year. Yabuta was sent down to Triple-A Omaha Royals on June 25, 2008. He was designated for assignment on August 2 and was eventually sent outright to the minors. He was brought back to the Royals when the rosters expanded on September 1.
His teammates on the Royals have given him the nickname "Shake."[2]
On November 24, 2009, he signed a one-year deal with his old team Chiba Lotte, and he has remained with the team since.[3]
References
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- (in Japanese) Yasuhiko Yabuta Official Web Site
- Japanese league stats and info of Yasuhiko Yabuta
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- 1 Akinori Iwamura
- 2 Michihiro Ogasawara
- 3 Nobuhiko Matsunaka
- 5 Kazuhiro Wada
- 6 Hitoshi Tamura
- 7 Tsuyoshi Nishioka
- 8 Toshiaki Imae
- 9 Tatsuhiko Kinjō
- 10 Shinya Miyamoto
- 11 Naoyuki Shimizu
- 12 Soichi Fujita
- 15 Tomoyuki Kubota
- 17 Kosuke Fukudome
- 18 Daisuke Matsuzaka
- 19 Koji Uehara
- 20 Yasuhiko Yabuta
- 21 Tsuyoshi Wada
- 22 Tomoya Satozaki
- 23 Nori Aoki
- 24 Kyuji Fujikawa
- 25 Takahiro Arai
- 27 Motonobu Tanishige
- 31 Shunsuke Watanabe
- 40 Akinori Otsuka
- 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi
- 47 Toshiya Sugiuchi
- 51 Ichiro Suzuki
- 52 Munenori Kawasaki
- 59 Ryoji Aikawa
- 61 Hirotoshi Ishii
- 61 Takahiro Mahara
- Manager 89 Sadaharu Oh
- Coach 84 Kazuhiro Takeda
- Coach 85 Hatsuhiko Tsuji
- Coach 86 Yoshitaka Katori
- Coach 87 Yasunori Oshima
- Coach 88 Sumio Hirota