| Louis Okoye | ||||||||||||
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 Okoye with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Yomiuri Giants – No. 50 | ||||||||||||
| Outfielder | ||||||||||||
| Born: (1997-07-21) July 21, 1997 (age 27) | ||||||||||||
| Bats: RightThrows: Right | ||||||||||||
| NPB debut | ||||||||||||
| March 25, 2016, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | ||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through 2020 season) | ||||||||||||
| Batting average | .219 | |||||||||||
| Home runs | 9 | |||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 38 | |||||||||||
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Louis Okoye (オコエ 瑠偉, Okoe Rui, born July 21, 1997 in Higashimurayama, Tokyo) // is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
After the 2017 season, he joined Cañeros de Los Mochis.
Okoye's mother is Japanese and his father is Igbo from Nigeria. His younger sister Monica Okoye is a member of the Japan women's national basketball team which won a silver medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
References
- "CAÑEROS ADQUIEREN AL OF JAPONES LOUIS OKOYE". Sitio Oficial de la Liga Mexicana del Pacífico (in Spanish). November 24, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
- Meet Nigerian baseball star who can't speak English, local dialect. Oak TV. January 20, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
External links
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB stats
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- 1997 births
- Living people
- Cañeros de Los Mochis players
- Japanese people of Nigerian descent
- Sportspeople of Nigerian descent
- Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
- People of Igbo descent
- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players
- Yomiuri Giants players
- Japanese expatriate baseball players in Mexico
- Baseball people from Tokyo
- People from Higashimurayama, Tokyo
- Japanese baseball outfielder stubs