Hirotoshi Ishii

Tokyo Yakult Swallows – No. 98

Pitching coach

Born: September 14, 1977
Ichihara, Chiba

Bats: Left

Throws: Left

NPB debut

July 6, 1996, for the Yakult Swallows

NPB statistics
(through 2008 season)

Win-Loss

27-15

ERA

2.66

Strikeouts

484

Teams

As player

Yakult Swallows/Tokyo Yakult Swallows (1996 - 2011)

As coach

Tokyo Yakult Swallows (2012 - present)

Hirotoshi Ishii
Medal record

Competitor for Japan
Men's Baseball
	Athens 2004	Team Competition
World Baseball Classic
	2006 San Diego	Team

Hirotoshi Ishii (石井弘寿, September 14, 1977) from Iwasaki, Ichihara, Chiba, Japan) is a Japanese baseball player. He currently plays as a relief pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.

He has repeatedly expressed a desire to play in the majors, and several teams have shown an interest in the left-hander. The Swallows were reluctant to release Ishii in the 2005 off-season, but promised they would allow him to come to the majors if he was able to play another full season in Japan (a similar promise was made to Akinori Iwamura, who signed with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays). Ishii was expected to sign with a major league team during the 2006 off-season, but injured his left shoulder, and decided to remain with the Swallows.

He joined the Japanese olympic baseball team for the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal.

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Career statistics

Japan 2006 World Baseball Classic Champions Roster (1st Title)

1 Akinori Iwamura 2 Michihiro Ogasawara 3 Nobuhiko Matsunaka 5 Kazuhiro Wada 6 Hitoshi Tamura 7 Tsuyoshi Nishioka 8 Toshiaki Imae 9 Tatsuhiko Kinjoh 10 Shinya Miyamoto 11 Naoyuki Shimizu 12 Soichi Fujita 15 Tomoyuki Kubota 17 Kosuke Fukudome 18 Daisuke Matsuzaka 19 Koji Uehara 20 Yasuhiko Yabuta 21 Tsuyoshi Wada 22 Tomoya Satozaki 23 Norichika Aoki 24 Kyuji Fujikawa 25 Takahiro Arai 27 Motonobu Tanishige 31 Shunsuke Watanabe 40 Akinori Otsuka 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi 47 Toshiya Sugiuchi 51 Ichiro Suzuki 52 Munenori Kawasaki 59 Ryoji Aikawa 61 Hirotoshi Ishii／Takahiro Mahara

Manager 89 Sadaharu Oh Coach 84 Kazuhiro Takeda Coach 85 Hatsuhiko Tsuji Coach 86 Yoshitaka Katori Coach 87 Yasunori Oshima Coach 88 Sumio Hirota

Tokyo Yakult Swallows current roster

Active roster	0 Wataru Hiyane 1 Tetsuto Yamada 2 Keiji Obiki 3 Naomichi Nishiura 4 Wladimir Balentien 5 Shingo Kawabata 7 Hiroyasu Tanaka 8 Shinichi Takeuchi 9 Yasushi Iihara 10 Ryosuke Morioka 12 Taichi Ishiyama 13 Luis Pérez 14 Ryo Akiyoshi 16 Juri Hara 17 Yoshihisa Naruse 18 Toshihiro Sugiura 19 Masanori Ishikawa 20 Tetsuya Yamamoto 21 Kenichi Matsuoka 22 Shingo Takeshita 24 Takahiro Araki 25 Shohei Tateyama 26 Kentaro Kyuko 28 Masahiko Tanaka 29 Yasuhiro Ogawa 30 Akihisa Nishida 31 Kotaro Yamasaki 32 Ren Kazahari 33 Kazuhiro Hatakeyama 34 Kyle Davies 35 Kengo Tagawa 36 Taishi Hirooka 37 Yudai Hoshino 38 Tetsuya Terada 39 Yusaku Nakamoto 40 Masato Furuno 41 Yuhei 42 Tomotaka Sakaguchi 43 Kyohei Muranaka 44 Keiji Iwahashi 45 Hiroaki Dohi 46 Ryota Yachi 47 Keiji Takahashi 48 Julius Higuma 49 Daiki Watanabe 50 Tsuyoshi Ueda 51 Ryota Fujii 52 Yuhei Nakamura 53 Josh Lueke 54 Masato Nakazawa 55 Koji Yamakawa 56 Nobuyuki Okumura 57 Jun Matsui 58 Logan Ondrusek 59 Takahiro Imanami 60 Masayoshi Miwa 61 Yuto Koyama 62 Takeaki Tokuyama 63 Suguru Ino 64 Ryohei Kiya 65 Izumi Hara 66 Nagisa Arakaki 68 Hirofumi Yamanaka 69 Ryuhei Kawakami 70 Ryosuke Yagi 91 Atsushi Ugumori 111 Shogo Nakashima (Trainee) 121 Yoshinori (Trainee) 167 Ryo Hirai (Trainee)

Coaching staff	Manager and head coach 77 Mitsuru Manaka

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