Daisuke Miura

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Daisuke Miura

Yokohama DeNA BayStars – No. 18
Pitcher
Born: (1973-12-25) December 25, 1973 Nara, Japan
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
Professional debut
NPB: October 7, 1992 for the Taiyo Whales
NPB statistics (through 2013)
Win–loss record	161-169
Earned run average	3.56
Strikeouts	2350
Teams
Yokohama Taiyo Whales/Yokohama BayStars/Yokohama DeNA BayStars (1992 - present)
Last update: 03 January 2014

Olympic medal record
Men's Baseball
Bronze	Athens 2004	Team Competition

Daisuke Miura (三浦大輔, born December 25, 1973) is a professional baseball player from Kashihara, Nara, Japan. He is a starting pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Professional Baseball career

Miura was drafted 6th in the 1991 Nippon Professional Baseball draft by the Yokohama Taiyo Whales. He made his professional debut against the Yomiuri Giants on October 7, 1992, retiring six straight batters in relief.

In 2005, he led the Central League in strikeouts (177) and ERA (2.52). Miura became a free agent after an injury-plagued 2008 season. Both the BayStars and the Hanshin Tigers, the team that he had rooted for as a child, offered him contracts. Miura decided to return to the BayStars, who offered him a 4-year contract worth 1 billion yen (approximately $10 million USD), as opposed to the Tigers, who were offering three years and 900 million yen. Miura`s contract was renewed for the 2014 season at 180 million Yen (approximately 1.75 million USD). ^[1]

Miura is known for his success against the Tigers in his career. Even in his worst seasons, Miura has had some of his best games against the Tigers, particularly at Koshien Stadium. ^{[citation needed]}

His nickname is "Hama no Bancho".^[2]

Olympic career

Miura pitched for Japan in the 2004 Summer Olympics, and helped the team win a bronze medal.^[3]

Pitching Style

Miura throws a fastball in the high 80`s and also utilizes a Slider, Forkball, Shuuto, Curveball, and Cutter.^[4] He is known for working both sides of the plate.^[5]

References

External links

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com

Yokohama DeNA BayStars current roster

00 Shugo Fujii
0 Noriharu Yamazaki
1 Tatsuhiko Kinjoh
3 Takayuki Kajitani
4 Sho Aranami
6 Keijiro Matsumoto
7 Takehiro Ishikawa
8 Hitoshi Tamura
9 Toshiyuki Kurobane
11 Shun Yamaguchi
12 Hiroshi Kobayashi
13 Yuta Kakita
14 Futoshi Kobayashi
15 Shoichi Inoh
16 Shigeru Kaga
17 Kazuki Mishima
18 Daisuke Miura
19 Hitoshi Fujie
20 Kota Suda
21 Kisho Kagami
22 Kentaro Takasaki
23 Kensuke Uchimura
24 Masanori Hayashi
25 Yoshitomo Tsutsugoh
26 Shotaro Ide
27 Yasutomo Kubo
28 Yujo Kitagata
29 Hiroyuki Shirasaki
30 Kazumasa Kikuchi
31 Daichi Akahori
32 Shuto Takajo
33 Tomo Otosaka
34 Shingo Hirata
35 Tomoya Mikami
36 Shigeo Yanagida
37 Masayuki Kuwahara
38 Yasushi Kamiuchi
39 Hiroki Minei
40 Hyuma Matsui
41 Shinji Ohara
42 Tony Blanco
43 Tateki Abe
44 Yuki Watanabe
45 Kenji Tsuchiya
46 Kenjiro Tanaka
47 Hisanori Takahashi
48 Shun Yamashita
49 Guillermo Moscoso
50 Tatsuya Shimozono
51 Toshiro Miyazaki
52 Aarom Baldiris
53 Jorge Sosa
54 Yota Kosugi
55 Taketoshi Gotoh
56 Shuichiro Osada
57 Kenjiro Tsuruoka
58 Atori Ota
60 Masayoshi Kato
61 Enyelbert Soto
63 Daiki Sekine
64 Takayuki Makka
65 Yuki Kuniyoshi
66 Masashi Nishimori
68 Kosuke Tomita
67 Takuro Ito
99 Norihiro Nakamura
100 Kinta Imai
111 Yoshiki Sunada
112 Kohei Mantani
113 Toru Komura
114 Mikihisa Travis Samura
115 Kevin Moscatel
118 Kuan-Yu Chen

Manager 87 Kiyoshi Nakahata

Persondata
Name	Miura, Daisuke
Alternative names
Short description	Baseball player
Date of birth	1973-12-25
Place of birth	Nara, Japan
Date of death
Place of death

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