Shintaro Fujinami
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Fujinami with the Hanshin Tigers
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| Hanshin Tigers – No. 19 | |||
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Born: April 12, 1994 Sakai, Osaka, Japan |
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| NPB debut | |||
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| NPB statistics (through 2016) |
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| Win–loss record | 42-32 | ||
| Earned run average | 2.96 | ||
| Strikeouts | 695 | ||
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Shintaro Fujinami (藤浪 晋太郎 born April 12, 1994?) is a Japanese baseball pitcher who plays for Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. He was born in Sakai, Osaka, Japan.
In 2010, Fujinami entered Osaka Toin High School. In his final year in 2012 he led Tōin as their ace pitcher at the Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament and Japanese High School Baseball Championship, where the school won both competitions.
Fujinami was the number 1 pick of the Tigers, Buffaloes, Marines, and the Swallows in the 2012 Autumn draft. Hanshin won the four-way lottery and assigned him jersey number 19.
2013
Fujinami made his debut on March 31, 2013, the third game of the season and the earliest-ever appearance by a rookie drafted out of high school. Fujinami recorded the loss by pitching six innings and allowing both runs in a 2-0 loss against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows at Jingu Stadium.
Fujinami was due to make his second start on April 7 against the Hiroshima Toyo Carp but was replaced as the starter by Minoru Iwata, who was unable to pitch in the rained-out game the day before. Fujinami instead made his next appearance as a relief pitcher. Fujinami made his second start on April 14 against the Yokohama DeNA BayStars and recorded his first professional win, pitching six scoreless innings. Fujinami was the fifth pitcher drafted out of high school in NPB history to record his first pro victory the year after they won a Koshien tournament and the first in that group to also record their first pro victory at Koshien Stadium. He is also the first pitcher out of high school in franchise history to record their first pro victory at Koshien and the first CL rookie out of high school to record ten or more victories in a season since Yutaka Enatsu in 1967.
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