Kei Igawa, the Glossary
is a former Japanese left-handed pitcher.[1]
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67 relations: Alex Rodriguez, Association football, Ōarai, Ibaraki, Baseball-Reference.com, Best Nine Award, Billy Connors, Boston Red Sox, Brian Cashman, Central League, Changeup, Chunichi Dragons, Cleveland Guardians, Columbus Clippers, Cy Young Award, Earned run, Earned run average, Eiji Sawamura Award, ESPN, Fastball, Florida State League, Gamba Osaka, General manager (baseball), Grand slam (baseball), Hanshin Tigers, Hit (baseball), Ian Kennedy, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, Japan, Jeff Karstens, Kashima Antlers, Kenshin Kawakami, Koshien Stadium, List of Nippon Professional Baseball earned run average champions, Major League Baseball, Masumi Kuwata, Minor League Baseball, MLB Japan All-Star Series, MLB.com, Nardi Contreras, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Yankees, Nikkan Sports, Nippon Professional Baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award, NJ.com, Orix Buffaloes, Pitcher, Posting system, San Diego Padres, ... Expand index (17 more) »
- Baseball people from Ibaraki Prefecture
Alex Rodriguez
Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975), nicknamed "A-Rod", is an American former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman, businessman and philanthropist. Kei Igawa and Alex Rodriguez are Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees players and Trenton Thunder players.
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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Ōarai, Ibaraki
is a town located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
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Baseball-Reference.com
Baseball-Reference is a website providing baseball statistics for every player in Major League Baseball history.
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Best Nine Award
The Best Nine Award is awarded annually to the best player at each position in both the Central League and Pacific League of Japanese professional baseball as determined by a pool of journalists.
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Billy Connors
William Joseph Connors (November 2, 1941 – June 18, 2018) was an American player, coach and front office official in professional baseball.
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Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston.
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Brian Cashman
Brian McGuire Cashman (born July 3, 1967) is an American baseball executive for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.
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Central League
The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan.
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Changeup
A changeup is a type of pitch in baseball and fastpitch softball.
Chunichi Dragons
The are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan.
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Cleveland Guardians
The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland.
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Columbus Clippers
The Columbus Clippers are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League (IL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians.
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Cy Young Award
The Cy Young Award is given annually to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB), one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL).
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Earned run
In baseball, an earned run is any run that was fully enabled by the offensive team's production in the face of competent play from the defensive team.
Earned run average
In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game).
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Eiji Sawamura Award
The, commonly known as the Sawamura Award, is an honor bestowed upon the top starting pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball each year.
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ESPN
ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.
Fastball
The fastball is the most common type of pitch thrown by pitchers in baseball and softball.
Florida State League
The Florida State League (FSL) is a Minor League Baseball league based in the state of Florida.
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Gamba Osaka
is a Japanese professional football club based in Suita, Osaka Prefecture.
General manager (baseball)
In Major League Baseball, the general manager (GM) of a team typically controls player transactions and bears the primary responsibility on behalf of the ballclub during contract discussions with players.
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Grand slam (baseball)
In baseball, a grand slam is a home run hit with all three bases occupied by baserunners ("bases loaded"), thereby scoring four runs—the most possible in one play.
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Hanshin Tigers
The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team playing in the Central League.
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Hit (baseball)
In baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H), also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches or passes first base after hitting the ball into fair territory with neither the benefit of an error nor a fielder's choice.
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Ian Kennedy
Ian Patrick Kennedy (born December 19, 1984) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Kei Igawa and Ian Kennedy are Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees players and Trenton Thunder players.
Ibaraki, Ibaraki
Lake Hinuma is a town located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jeff Karstens
Jeffrey Wayne Karstens (born September 24, 1982) is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). Kei Igawa and Jeff Karstens are Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees players and Trenton Thunder players.
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Kashima Antlers
are a professional football club based in Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Kenshin Kawakami
Kenshin Kawakami (川上 憲伸) (born June 22, 1975) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. Kei Igawa and Kenshin Kawakami are Japanese expatriate baseball players in the United States, Major League Baseball players from Japan, Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners and Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers.
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Koshien Stadium
, commonly referred to as simply Koshien Stadium, is a baseball park located near Kobe in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
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List of Nippon Professional Baseball earned run average champions
The List of Nippon Professional Baseball champions.
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Masumi Kuwata
Masumi Kuwata (桑田 真澄 Kuwata Masumi, born 1 April 1968 in Yao, Osaka, Japan) is a former Japanese right-handed pitcher who played the bulk of his career with the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball. Kei Igawa and Masumi Kuwata are Japanese expatriate baseball players in the United States, Major League Baseball players from Japan, Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners and Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers.
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Minor League Baseball
Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is a professional baseball organization below Major League Baseball (MLB), including teams affiliated with MLB clubs.
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MLB Japan All-Star Series
The MLB Japan All-Star Series is an irregular end-of-the-season tour of Japan made by an All-Star team from Major League Baseball (MLB) since 1986, contested in a best-of format against the All-Stars from Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) or recently as of 2014 their national team Samurai Japan (SJP).
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MLB.com
MLB.com is the official site of Major League Baseball and is overseen by Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. (a subsidiary of MLB).
Nardi Contreras
Arnaldo Juan Contreras (born September 19, 1951) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and coach.
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New York Daily News
The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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New York Post
The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.
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New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
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Nikkan Sports
is the first-launched Japanese daily sports newspaper founded in 1946.
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Nippon Professional Baseball
is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan.
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Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
The is an annual Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) award given to two outstanding players, one each for the Central League (CL) and Pacific League (PL).
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NJ.com
NJ.com is a digital news content provider and website in New Jersey owned by Advance Publications.
Orix Buffaloes
The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team formed as a result of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment by the merger of the Orix BlueWave of Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
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Pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk.
Posting system
The is a baseball player transfer system that operates between Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB).
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San Diego Padres
The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team based in San Diego.
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San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco.
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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders
The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, often abbreviated to SWB RailRiders, are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League (IL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees.
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Shigeki Noguchi
Shigeki Noguchi (野口 茂樹; born May 13, 1974) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball. Kei Igawa and Shigeki Noguchi are Japanese expatriate baseball players in the United States, Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners and Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers.
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Shogi
, also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players.
Slider (pitch)
In baseball, a slider is a type of breaking ball, a pitch that moves or "breaks" as it approaches the batter.
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Spring training
Spring training is the preseason in Major League Baseball (MLB), a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season.
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Standing ovation
A standing ovation is a form of applause where members of a seated audience stand up while applauding, often after extraordinary performances of particularly high acclaim.
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Star-News
StarNews is an American, English language daily newspaper for Wilmington, North Carolina, and its surrounding area (known as the Lower Cape Fear).
Strikeout
In baseball or softball, a strikeout (or strike-out) occurs when a batter accumulates three strikes during a time at bat.
Tampa Tarpons
The Tampa Tarpons are a Minor League Baseball team of the Florida State League and the Single-A affiliate of the New York Yankees.
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The Japan Times
The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Star-Ledger
The Star-Ledger is the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey.
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Trenton Thunder
The Trenton Thunder are a collegiate summer baseball team of the MLB Draft League.
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Triple-A (baseball)
Triple-A (officially Class AAA) has been the highest level of play in Minor League Baseball in the United States since 1946.
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Win–loss record (pitching)
In baseball and softball, a win–loss record (also referred to simply as a record) is a statistic that indicates the number of wins (denoted "W") and losses (denoted "L") credited to a pitcher.
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Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium located in the Bronx in New York City.
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See also
Baseball people from Ibaraki Prefecture
- Akira Ejiri
- Atsushi Endoh
- Hidekazu Watanabe
- Hiroki Yamada (baseball)
- Hiromoto Okubo
- Jobu Morita
- Kakeru Ayabe
- Katsuhiko Saka
- Katsumi Hirosawa
- Kei Igawa
- Kota Suda
- Manabu Mima
- Manabu Saito (baseball)
- Masanori Taguchi
- Naoto Watanabe
- Rikuo Nemoto
- Ryo Watanabe (infielder)
- Shinji Ohara
- Shohei Tsukahara
- Shun Tono
- Takehito Kanazawa
- Takumi Kobe
- Tatsuru Yanagimachi
- Tomohisa Ohzeki
- Toshihisa Nishi
- Tsubasa Aizawa
- Tsuyoshi Ishizaki
- Yasumitsu Toyoda
- Yasunori Kikuchi
- Yoshiyuki Noguchi
- Yusuke Nishimiya
- Yusuke Oyama
- Yutaro Ohsaki
- Yūki Takahashi (baseball)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_Igawa
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, San Francisco Giants, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, Shigeki Noguchi, Shogi, Slider (pitch), Spring training, Standing ovation, Star-News, Strikeout, Tampa Tarpons, The Japan Times, The New York Times, The Star-Ledger, Trenton Thunder, Triple-A (baseball), Win–loss record (pitching), Yankee Stadium.