Hirokazu Sawamura

Sawamura with the Yomiuri Giants

Yomiuri Giants – No. 15

Pitcher

Born: April 3, 1988
Tochigi, Japan

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

NPB debut

April 15, 2011, for the Yomiuri Giants

NPB statistics
(through 2013 season)

Win–Loss

26–31

ERA

2.62

Strikeouts

460

Teams

Yomiuri Giants (2011–present)

Career highlights and awards

2011 Central League Rookie of the Year

Last update: November 4, 2013

Hirokazu Sawamura (澤村拓一, Sawamura Hirokazu, born April 3, 1988 in Tochigi, Japan) is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player in Japan's Central League. He plays for the Yomiuri Giants.

Sawamura was named the 2011 Central League Rookie of the Year.^[1] He was elected Japan national baseball team in 2013 World Baseball Classic.^[2]

References

External links

Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)
NBP

Japan 2013 World Baseball Classic roster

1 Takashi Toritani 2 Ryoji Aikawa 3 Hirokazu Ibata 5 Nobuhiro Matsuda 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Kazuo Matsui 9 Yoshio Itoi 10 Shinnosuke Abe 11 Hideaki Wakui 13 Sho Nakata 14 Atsushi Nohmi 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 16 Takeru Imamura 17 Masahiro Tanaka 18 Toshiya Sugiuchi 20 Kenta Maeda 21 Masahiko Morifuku 24 Seiichi Uchikawa 26 Tetsuya Utsumi 27 Ginjiro Sumitani 28 Kenji Otonari 34 Hisayoshi Chōno 35 Kazuhisa Makita 41 Atsunori Inaba 46 Yuichi Honda 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi 50 Tadashi Settsu 61 Katsuya Kakunaka

Manager Koji Yamamoto Coach Osamu Higashio Coach Masataka Nashida Coach Koichi Ogata Coach Nobuhiro Takashiro Coach Kazuyoshi Tatsunami Coach Tsuyoshi Yoda

Central League Rookie of the Year Award

1950: Oshima
1951: Matsuda
1952: T. Sato
1953: M. Gondo
1954: Hirooka
1955: Nishimura
1956: Akiyama
1957: M. Fujita
1958: Nagashima
1959: Kuwata
1960: Horimoto
1961: H. Gondo
1962: Jōnouchi
1963: None
1964: S. Takahashi
1965: None
1966: Horiuchi
1967: Takegami
1968: Takada
1969: Tabuchi
1970: Yazawa
1971: Sekimoto
1972: Yasuda
1973: None
1974: Fujinami
1975: None
1976: Tao
1977: Saito
1978: Sumi
1979: Fujisawa
1980: Okada
1981: Hara
1982: Tsuda
1983: Makihara
1984: Kobayakawa
1985: Kawabata
1986: Nagatomi
1987: Arai
1988: Tatsunami
1989: Tomashino
1990: Yoda
1991: Morita
1992: Kuji
1993: Ito
1994: Yabu
1995: Yamauchi
1996: Nishi
1997: Sawazaki
1998: Kawakami
1999: Uehara
2000: Kinjoh
2001: Akahoshi
2002: Ishikawa
2003: Kisanuki
2004: Kawashima
2005: Aoki
2006: Soyogi
2007: Uezono
2008: Yamaguchi
2009: Matsumoto
2010: Chōno
2011: Sawamura
2012: Nomura
2013: Ogawa
2014: Ohsera
2015: Yamasaki

Yomiuri Giants current roster

First squad	2 Ryota Wakiya 5 Garrett Jones 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Hisayoshi Chono 8 Yasuyuki Kataoka 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei 10 Shinnosuke Abe 11 Luis Cruz 12 Takahiro Suzuki 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 19 Tomoyuki Sugano 20 Scott Mathieson 21 Toshiki Sakurai 22 Seiji Kobayashi 23 Ryoji Aikawa 25 Shuichi Murata 26 Tetsuya Utsumi 28 Kyosuke Takagi 30 Ryosuke Miyaguni 37 Seiji Tahara 38 Kazuma Okamoto 39 Miles Mikolas 40 Ken Katoh 42 Leslie Anderson 43 Shinnosuke Shigenobu 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi 49 Aaron Poreda 50 Chiaki Tone 51 Takehiro Donoue 54 Hayato Takagi 58 Soichiro Tateoka 68 Daiki Yoshikawa 90 Kazuto Taguchi

Second squad	00 Takayuki Terauchi 0 Daisuke Fujimura 13 Ryota Katsuki 17 Kan Otake 18 Toshiya Sugiuchi 27 Kazunari Sanematsu 31 Tetsuya Matsumoto 32 Itaru Hashimoto 35 Kentaro Nishimura 36 Daisuke Nakai 44 Taishi Ohta 45 Nobutaka Imamura 46 Hirotaka Yonahara 48 Toshiyuki Yanuki 52 Shingo Usami 53 Genki Kawano 56 Yasuhiro Yamamoto 57 Katsuhiko Kumon 59 Yuki Koyama 60 Susumu Ohrui 61 Ren Wada 62 Yuki Egarashi 64 Masato Kiyashiki 65 Harutomo Tsuji 66 Atsushi Kita 67 Mizuki Tsuchida 69 Takuya Matsuzaki 91 Kota Nakagawa 92 Kentaro Taira 93 Daisuke Tatsumi 94 Hector Mendoza 99 Toru Anan

Coaching	Manager: 24 Yoshinobu Takahashi Second squad manager: 83 Masaki Saito

Japan roster – 2015 WBSC Premier 12

3 Nobuhiro Matsuda 5 Shingo Kawabata 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Akira Nakamura 8 Ryosuke Hirata 9 Takuya Nakashima 10 Yuki Matsui 11 Tomoyuki Sugano 13 Sho Nakata 14 Takahiro Norimoto 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 16 Shohei Otani 18 Kenta Maeda 19 Hirotoshi Masui 21 Yuki Nishi 22 Yudai Ono 23 Tetsuto Yamada 24 Yasuaki Yamasaki 25 Yoshitomo Tsutsugo 27 Ginjiro Sumitani 29 Yasuhiro Ogawa 30 Shota Takeda 35 Kazuhisa Makita 37 Motohiro Shima 52 Yuhei Nakamura 55 Shogo Akiyama 60 Takeya Nakamura

Manager 90 Hiroki Kokubo

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