Hideaki Wakui
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Wakui with the Saitama Seibu Lions
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| Chiba Lotte Marines – No. 16 | |||
| Starting pitcher | |||
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Born: June 21, 1986 Matsudo, Chiba, Japan |
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| NPB debut | |||
| March 29, 2005, for the Seibu Lions | |||
| NPB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 118-101 | ||
| ERA | 3.40 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1387 | ||
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| Last updated on: December 20, 2013 | |||
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Representing  Japan
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| Men's Baseball | ||
| World Baseball Classic | ||
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2009 Los Angeles | Team |
| Asian Baseball Championship | ||
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2007 Taichung | Team |
Hideaki Wakui (涌井 秀章 Wakui Hideaki?, born June 21, 1986 in Matsudo, Chiba, Japan) is a starting pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines.
Wakui pitched for the Japanese national team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2009 World Baseball Classic.
Wakui was born in Matsudo, a large city in Chiba Prefecture. He played softball in elementary school and began playing baseball in junior high for Matsudo Senior.
Wakui went on to Yokohama Senior High School, the alma mater of current Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka and a baseball powerhouse that had sent more players to the pros than any other high school in Japan except PL Gakuen Senior High. There, he played in the 75th National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament in 2003 alongside then-ace and current Chiba Lotte Marines left-hander Yoshihisa Naruse (who was a year older than Wakui) in the spring of his second year (the equivalent of eleventh grade in the United States). Wakui was chosen to start in the tournament finals despite having pitched only in relief up until then, but gave up six runs in just 3 2⁄3 innings to Koryo High School, who, led by current Yomiuri Giants pitcher Kentaro Nishimura, won in a 15–3 rout.
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