Yōhei Ōshima (大島 洋平, born November 9, 1985, in Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Ōshima has 9 golden glove awards which is the most by any player in Chunichi Dragons history.[1]
| Yōhei Ōshima 大島洋平 | |
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 Oshima with the Chunichi Dragons | |
| Chunichi Dragons – No. 8 | |
| Outfielder | |
| Born: November 9, 1985 | |
Bats: Left Throws: Left | |
| NPB debut | |
| 2010, for the Chunichi Dragons | |
| NPB statistics (through 2023) | |
| Batting average | .291 |
| Hits | 2,021 |
| Home runs | 34 |
| RBI | 395 |
| Stolen Bases | 266 |
| Teams | |
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| Career highlights and awards | |
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Early career edit
In Grade 4, started playing baseball for the Nagoya Hirabari Junior Baseball club. From middle school, Ōshima played for Tōkai Challenger in the junior boys league as both pitcher and outfielder.
In high school of his third year, Oshima batted lead-off and pitched for Kyōei High School in the summer.[2]
After entering Komazawa University. Oshima consolidated as an outfielder. In the Eastern University League of Tokyo, Oshima hit over .300 for 3 consecutive seasons from fall of 2006 including capturing batting title honours in fall of 2007 with a .395 average.[3] Through his university career, Oshima played 83 games, hit .290 with 1 homerun and 20 RBIs. He was selected in the Best 9 twice.
After graduating university, Oshima joined Nihon Seimei in the industrial league. In his first year he was installed as lead-off hitter and in January 2008, batted .563 in the Japanese National Championships. He was selected in the industrial league Best 9 in the same year.
At the 2009 NPB draft Oshima was selected in the 5th round.[4]
Professional career edit
On 20 July 2016, against the Hiroshima Carp at Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima, he hit for the cycle, the first for Chunichi since Alex Ochoa in 2004.[5] On August 26 2023, he hits 2000th home runs in a game with Yokohama DeNA BayStars, become a Meikyukai member.
External links edit
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
References edit
- ^ "「三井ゴールデン・グラブ賞」に中日から3選手 柳は初受賞、ビシエドは2年連続、大島は球団最多9回目：中日スポーツ・東京中日スポーツ" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-12-02.
- ^ Kubota, Tatsuo (2018-08-06). "「えっ、あの人が？」 高校時代に投手だった"意外"なプロ野球選手" ["Really, that guy?" Professional players that were actually pitchers in high school]. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-02-24.
- ^ "東都大学野球連盟[試合情報-平成１９年春季-選手成績（１部）]". Tohto Baseball League. 2020-02-24. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
- ^ "中日のドラフト史に"当たり5位"の歴史あり…山本昌、井端、大島らに続け！菰野高・岡林が歩む栄光の系譜". Chunichi Sports (in Japanese). 2020-02-08. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
- ^ "Otani homer helps lift Fighters over Eagles". Japan Times. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
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