Yūya Andō

Yuya Ando
安藤優也

Ando with the Hanshin Tigers

Hanshin Tigers – No. 16

Pitcher

Born: December 27, 1977
Oita, Japan

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

NPB debut

April 7, 2002, for the Hanshin Tigers

NPB statistics
(through 2010 season)

Win-Loss

59-50

ERA

3.63

Strikeouts

650

Teams

Hanshin Tigers (2002 - )

Last update: December 31, 2010

Olympic medal record
Men's Baseball
	Athens 2004	Team Competition

Yūya Andō (安藤優也, Andō Yūya, often Andoh, born December 27, 1977) is a professional baseball player from Ōita City, Japan. He is part of the starting rotation for the Hanshin Tigers baseball team.

Career

In 2006, Ando pitched his first Shutout game against Yokohama BayStars.^[1]

Ando joined the Japanese Olympic baseball team for the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal.^[2] Ando went 7-4 in college, battling shoulder problems. He went on to Toyota Motors in the industrial leagues and peaked at 93 mph there, drawing the interest of various scouts. In the 2001 Baseball World Cup, he went 2-0 with a 2.45 ERA, allowing 5 hits and fanning 14 in 11 innings.^[3]

Statistics


Year	G	CG	Fins	Start	ShutOut	Walk Free	W	L	S	W%	H	IP	H	HR	BoB	HbP	SO	R	ER	ERA
2002	17	0	5	8	0	0	3	5	0	.375	253	59.2	51	7	22	3	40	31	25	3.77
2003	51	0	13	0	0	0	5	2	5	.714	245	61	44	2	19	1	60	11	11	1.62
2004	57	0	20	0	0	0	5	8	5	.385	254	60.1	53	10	20	3	72	25	24	3.58
2005	24	3	1	20	0	2	11	5	0	.688	592	146	142	15	25	7	119	56	55	3.39
2006	31	2	2	18	1	0	10	3	0	.769	546	129	139	7	31	4	103	52	48	3.35
2007	8	0	0	6	0	0	2	3	0	.400	141	33	30	4	14	1	17	17	16	4.36
2008	25	2	0	25	0	1	13	9	0	.591	656	154.2	158	8	41	8	111	57	55	3.20
2009	28	2	0	28	0	0	8	12	0	.400	714	164	180	18	51	6	97	80	71	3.90
2010	19	0	0	9	0	0	2	3	0	.400	246	52	78	9	14	0	31	45	42	7.27
Career	260	9	41	110	1	3	59	50	10	.541	3647	859.2	875	80	237	33	650	374	347	3.63

References

↑ "Baseball: Sheets, Ando lead Hanshin's rout of Yokohama in CL". Japan Economic Newswire. September 3, 2006. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ "Wednesday's Olympic Medalists". The Associated Press. August 25, 2004. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Baseball-reference.com

External links

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com

Hanshin Tigers roster

First squad	00 Kohei Shibata 0 Yamato 1 Takashi Toritani 2 Fumiya Hojo 4 Hiroki Uemoto 5 Mauro Gómez 7 Tsuyoshi Nishioka 8 Kosuke Fukudome 9 Shun Takayama 13 Daiki Enokida 14 Atsushi Nomi 16 Yuya Ando 17 Yuta Iwasada 19 Shintaro Fujinami 20 Kazuya Tsutsui 21 Minoru Iwata 25 Taiga Egoshi 26 Hiroaki Saiuchi 27 Takumi Akiyama 28 Shinobu Fukuhara 32 Ryota Arai 34 Kazuya Takamiya 36 Matt Hague 38 Marcos Mateo 39 Shinji Komiyama 40 Kazunari Tsuruoka 41 Akifumi Takahashi 44 Ryutaro Umeno 45 Takashi Shimizu 49 Ryota Imanari 51 Hayata Ito 54 Randy Messenger 56 Ryoma Matsuda 59 Akira Iwamoto 60 Masahiro Nakatani 64 Kentaro Kuwahara 66 Kazuhito Futagami 67 Suguru Iwazaki 68 Shunsuke 69 Hiroya Shimamoto 98 Rafael Dolis 99 Keisuke Kanoh

Second squad	12 Seishirō Sakamoto 15 Yuya Yokoyama 24 Shintaro Yokota 29 Tatsuya Kojima 30 Tsuyoshi Ishizaki 33 Naoto Nishida 35 Katsuhiko Saka 37 Yuto Morikoshi 42 Daichi Takeyasu 43 Kōki Moriya 46 Naoto Tsuru 47 Shoya Yamamoto 48 Kazuyuki Kaneda 50 Kōyō Aoyagi 52 Shinya Azuhata 55 Naomasa Yokawa 57 Taichi Okazaki 58 Fumiya Araki 61 Atsushi Mochizuki 62 Kai Ueda 63 Yutaro Itayama 65 Ryosuke Ogata 92 Kazuo Itoh 95 Nelson Perez

Development players	116 Kōjirō Tanabo (pitcher) 118 Travis (pitcher) 123 Shinta Hifumi (outfielder) 124 Fumihito Haraguchi (catcher)

First squad Coaches	Manager: 6 Tomoaki Kanemoto Head coach: 70 Nobuhiro Takashiro Fielding and base coach: 78 Katsuo Hirata Strategy coach and battery coach: 88 Akihiro Yano Pitching coaches: 90 Isao Koda, 73 Satoru Kanemura Hitting coaches: 81 Atsushi Kataoka, 79 Osamu Hamanaka, 80 Tom O'Malley Fielding and base coach for infielders: 71 Teruyoshi Kuji Fielding and base coach for outfielders: 87 Yutaka Nakamura Training coach: 91 Atsunori Itoh

Second squad Coaches	Manager: 31 Masayuki Kakefu Fielding and base coach: 83 Hideo Furuya Pitching coaches: 84 Yasuo Kubo (Head), 72 Ken Takahashi Strategy coach: 77 Makoto Imaoka Hitting coach: 96 Sō Tsutsui Fielding and base coaches: 74 Atsushi Fujimoto, 76 Keiichi Hirano Battery coach: 82 Katsuhiko Yamada

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