Dean Green (baseball)

Dean Green

Tokyo Yakult Swallows – No. 40

First baseman

Born: June 30, 1989
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Bats: Left

Throws: Right

Rodger Dean Green (born June 30, 1989) is an American professional baseball first baseman for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Career

Green attended Berryhill High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.^[1] Green started his collegiate career at Oklahoma State University.^[2] He transferred to Barry University, continuing his college baseball career with the Barry Buccaneers of NCAA Division II.^[3]

The Detroit Tigers selected Green in the 11th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft.^[4] He played for the Erie SeaWolves of the Class AA Eastern League in 2014.^[5] Beginning the 2015 season with Erie, Green was named an All-Star, and was promoted to the Toledo Mud Hens of the Class AAA International League. He began the 2016 season with Erie, receiving another midseason promotion to Toledo.^[6] After the 2016 season, the Tigers sold Green's contract to the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League.^[7]

↑ "Pro baseball: Berryhill's Dean Green enjoys sizzling start in Eastern League". Tulsa World. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
↑ "Getting To Know Dean Green - MiLB.com News - The Official Site of Minor League Baseball". MiLB.com. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
↑ "Green finds home at Barry". NCAA.com. May 4, 2011. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
↑ Waldon, Emily (July 17, 2015). "1B Dean Green called up to Toledo". Bless You Boys. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
↑ Henning, Lynn (June 1, 2015). "Green hitting at plus-.300 clip a fifth straight year". The Detroit News. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
↑ Wagner, John (July 27, 2016). "Coop Scoop: Green learns valuable lesson". Toledo Blade. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
↑ "Tigers minor-league first baseman Dean Green to play in Japan". MLive.com. Retrieved November 2, 2016.

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 8 Shinichi Takeuchi 9 Yasushi Iihara 10 Takahiro Araki 11 Yoshinori Sato 12 Taichi Ishiyama 13 Hikaru Nakao 14 Ryo Akiyoshi 16 Juri Hara 17 Yoshihisa Naruse 18 Naruki Terashima 19 Masanori Ishikawa 20 Tetsuya Yamamoto 21 Kenichi Matsuoka 22 Shingo Takeshita 24 Tomoya Hoshi 25 Shohei Tateyama 26 Kentaro Kyuko 28 David Buchanan 29 Yasuhiro Ogawa 30 Akihisa Nishida 31 Kotaro Yamasaki 32 Ren Kazahari 33 Kazuhiro Hatakeyama 34 Ross Ohlendorf 35 Ryūsuke Kikusawa 36 Taishi Hirooka 37 Yūdai Hoshino 38 Yūgo Umeno 40 Dean Green 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 Yūdai Koga 58 Toshihiro Sugiura 59 Takahiro Imanami 60 Masayoshi Miwa 61 Preston Guilmet 62 Takeaki Tokuyama 63 Suguru Ino 64 Aoi Enomoto 65 Izumi Hara 67 Ryo Hirai 68 Hirofumi Yamanaka 70 Kazuki Kondoh 71 Shogo Nakashima 91 Atsushi Ugumori
Trainee	117 Kengo Tagawa 118 Masato Furuno
Coaching staff	Manager and head coach 77 Mitsuru Manaka

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