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Minoru Iwata
岩田 稔
Hanshin Tigers — No. 21 Pitcher Born: October 31, 1983
Moriguchi, Osaka, JapanBats: Left Throws: Left Professional debut NPB: October 14, 2006 for the Hanshin Tigers NPB statistics
(through 2010 season)Win-Loss 17-17 ERA 3.21 Strikeouts 211 Teams - Hanshin Tigers (2006 - )
Minoru Iwata (岩田 稔, born October 31, 1983) is a Japanese baseball pitcher from Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan and he currently plays for the Hanshin Tigers. He was a member of the Japan team in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
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Early years
Iwata entered Osaka Toin High School in 1998. He became the ace pitcher in autumun 1999 (his 2rd year of senior high school) and contributed to the school's winning the Osaka High School Baseball Autumn Tournament and advancing to the quarterfinal in the Kansai High School Baseball Autumn Tournament. However, he contracted type 1 diabetes because he caught a viral cold in winter. He could not play in his 3rd year of senior high school, then he entered Kansai University in 2001. He had 6 wins and 10 losses in the university league.
Nipon Professional Baseball
He was drafted by the Hanshin Tigers after 2005 season because of his various breaking balls. In his debut in 2006, Iwata allowed four runs in 3 innings of work and lost his only game in the season. In 2007, Iwata was 0-1 and a 5.40 ERA. In 2008, he was third in voting for the 2008 Central League Rookie of the Year Award, trailing Tetsuya Yamaguchi and Hayato Sakamoto after going 10-10 with a 3.28 ERA and 101 strikeouts.
2009 World Baseball Classic
He was selected to play for Japan in the 2009 World Baseball Classic replacing Hiroki Kuroda due to his shoulder problems.
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Hanshin Tigers roster 2011 First squad 00 Kohei Shibata | 1 Takashi Toritani | 3 Kentaro Sekimoto | 4 Hiroki Uemoto | 5 Keiichi Hirano | 6 Tomoaki Kanemoto | 7 Shunsuke | 8 Ryo Asai | 9 Matt Murton | 12 Ryo Watanabe | 13 Daiki Enokida | 14 Atsushi Nomi | 21 Minoru Iwata | 22 Kyuji Fujikawa | 24 Shinjiro Hiyama | 25 Takahiro Arai | 28 Shinobu Fukuhara | 31 Wei-Chu Lin | 32 Ryota Arai | 34 Yasutomo Kubo | 39 Shinji Komiyama | 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi | 50 Akihito Fujii | 54 Randy Messenger | 55 Jason Standridge | 62 Yusuke Kawasaki | 67 Craig Brazell | 69 Issei Morita
Second squad 0 Yamato | 2 Kenji Johjima | 15 Masanori Fujihara | 16 Yuya Ando | 17 Naohisa Sugiyama | 18 Kazuhito Futagami | 19 Ikketsu Sho | 20 Kazuya Tsutsui | 27 Takumi Akiyama | 29 Tatsuya Kojima | 30 Tomoyuki Kubota | 33 Ikuro Katsuragi | 35 Katsuhiko Saka | 36 Shinta Hifumi | 37 Masashi Nohara | 38 Ryohei Hashimoto | 40 Cheng Kai-Wen | 42 Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi | 43 Ken Nishimura | 44 Yuhei Kai | 45 Takashi Shimizu | 46 Naoto Tsuru | 47 Keiji Uezono | 48 Shunsuke Ishikawa | 49 Ryuji Wakatake | 51 Kodai Sakurai | 52 Fumihito Haraguchi | 57 Taichi Okazaki | 58 Fumiya Araki | 56 Kenta Abe | 59 Akira Iwamoto | 60 Masahiro Nakanishi | 61 Kenichi Tagami | 63 Kosuke Kato | 64 Hirokazu Shiranita | 65 Daiki Kiyohara | 66 Haruki Kurose | 68 Ryunosuke Yokoyama | 79 Masashi Sajikihara | 94 Yuya Nohara | 99 Keisuke Kano
Development players 116 Robert Zarate (pitcher) | 118 Yutaka Tamaki (pitcher) | 120 Shintaro Tanaka (infielder) | 121 Yusuke Kuroda (outfielder) | 122 Teteuya Sakaguchi (infielder) | 123 Shuhei Takada (pitcher) | 124 Koji Yoshioka (pitcher) | 125 Kosei Fujii (infielder) | 126 Hiroya Shimamoto (pitcher) | 127 Masaki Anada (infielder) | 128 Marcos Vechionacci (infielder)
First squad Coaching Manager: 72 Akinobu Mayumi | Head coach: 70 Katsuhiko Kido | Fielding chief coach: 82 Yoshiaki Oka | Pitching coaches: 84 Yasuo Kubo, 85 Takashi Yamaguchi | Hitting coaches: 86 Yutaka Wada, 88 Atsushi Kataoka | Base coaches: 89 Koji Yamawaki, 92 Teruyoshi Kuji | Battery coach: 81 Yasuo Yoshida | Traning coaches: 91 Atsunori Ito, 93 Takao Ebino
Second squad Coaching Manager: 74 Haruki Yoshitake | Pitching coaches: 71 Kiyooki Nakanishi, 80 Keiichi Yabu | Hitting coaches: 76 Hiroshi Yagi, 75 Mitsunobu Takahashi | Base coaches: 73 Naoyuki Kazaoka, 87 Yutaka Nakamura | Battery coach: 83 Munehiko Shimada | Traning coach: 90 Toshiyuki Tsuzuki | Development cheif coach: 98 Mitsuo Tateishi | Coaches for development players: 95 Shoji Toyama, 96 So Tsutsui, 97 Yasunori Nagao
Japan 2009 World Baseball Classic Champions Roster (2nd Title) 1 Kosuke Fukudome | 2 Kenji Johjima | 5 Kenta Kurihara | 6 Hiroyuki Nakajima | 7 Yasuyuki Kataoka | 8 Akinori Iwamura | 9 Michihiro Ogasawara | 10 Shinnosuke Abe | 11 Yu Darvish | 14 Takahiro Mahara | 15 Masahiro Tanaka | 16 Hideaki Wakui | 18 Daisuke Matsuzaka | 19 Minoru Iwata | 20 Hisashi Iwakuma | 22 Kyuji Fujikawa | 23 Norichika Aoki | 24 Seiichi Uchikawa | 25 Shuichi Murata | 26 Tetsuya Utsumi | 28 Satoshi Komatsu | 29 Yoshiyuki Ishihara | 31 Shunsuke Watanabe | 35 Yoshiyuki Kamei | 39 Tetsuya Yamaguchi | 41 Atsunori Inaba | 47 Toshiya Sugiuchi | 51 Ichiro Suzuki | 52 Munenori Kawasaki
Manager 83 Tatsunori Hara | Coach 72 Tsutomu Ito | Coach 71 Hisashi Yamada | Coach 92 Tsuyoshi Yoda | Coach 81 Kazunori Shinozuka | Coach 63 Nobuhiro Takashiro
Categories:- 2009 World Baseball Classic players
- Baseball people from Osaka Prefecture
- Hanshin Tigers players
- Japanese baseball players
- Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
- People from Moriguchi
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Japanese baseball pitcher stubs
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