| Ryōsuke Hirata 平田 良介 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Hirata with the Chunichi Dragons | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chunichi Dragons – No. 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Outfielder/Coach | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: (1988-03-23) March 23, 1988 (age 36) Jōtō-ku, Osaka, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batted: RightThrew: 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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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
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.
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.
In 2018, Hirata was selected for the 2018 NPB All-Star game [jp].
References
- "2005年 中日ドラゴンズ" [2005 Chunichi Dragons] (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 November 2015.
- "中日平田が来季主将「谷繁監督を胴上げする」" [Chuinichi's Hirata to be next season's captain "I want to lift up Tanishige-kantoku in victory"]. 2015-11-26 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- "マイナビオールスターゲーム2018 出場者". NPB.jp 日本野球機構 (in Japanese). July 3, 2018.
External links
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB.com
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