- Daisuke Miura
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Daisuke Miura 
Yokohama BayStars — No. 18 Pitcher Born: December 25, 1973
Nara, JapanBats: Right Throws: Right Professional debut NPB: October 7, 1992 for the Taiyo Whales Teams - Taiyo Whales/Yokohama BayStars (1992 - )
Last update: 24 July 2010 Olympic medal record Men's Baseball Bronze Athens 2004 Team Competition Daisuke Miura (三浦 大輔, born December 25, 1973) is a professional baseball player from Kashihara, Nara, Japan. He is a starting pitcher for the Yokohama BayStars.
In 2005, he led the Central League in strikeouts (177) and ERA (2.52). Miura became a free agent after an injury-plagued 2008 season. Both the BayStars and the Hanshin Tigers, the team that he had rooted for as a child, were bidding for his services. Miura decided to return to the BayStars, who offered him a 4-year contract worth 1 billion yen (about $10 million USD), as opposed to the Tigers, who were offering three years and 900 million yen. Miura's new contract practically ensures that the 34-year old pitcher will finish his career in Yokohama.
Miura is known for his success against the Tigers in his career. Even in his worst seasons, Miura has had some of his best games against the Tigers, particularly at Koshien Stadium.
He joined the Japanese Olympic baseball team for the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal. His nickname is "Hama no Bancho".
External links
- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com
Yokohama BayStars current roster 00 Naoto Inada | 0 Noriharu Yamazaki | 1 Tatsuhiko Kinjoh | 2 Naoto Watanabe | 3 Terrmel Sledge | 4 Sho Aranami | 5 Hichori Morimoto | 6 Keijiro Matsumoto | 7 Takehiro Ishikawa | 8 Yoshitomo Tsutsugoh | 9 Ikki Shimamura | 11 Shun Yamaguchi | 12 Hiroshi Kobayashi | 13 Koji Onuma | 14 Futoshi Kobayashi | 15 Shogo Yamamoto | 16 Shigeru Kaga | 17 Naoyuki Shimizu | 18 Daisuke Miura | 19 Hitoshi Fujie | 20 Kota Suda | 21 Kisho Kagami | 22 Kentaro Takasaki | 23 Kazuya Fujita | 24 Brent Leach | 25 Shuichi Murata | 26 Shotaro Ide | 27 Shintaro Ejiri | 28 Yuji Hata | 29 Shinji Ninuma | 30 Hiroki Sanada | 31 Yuki Yoshimura | 33 Tasuku Hashimoto | 34 Takayuki Shinohara | 35 Shigeki Ushida | 36 Takeshi Hosoyamada | 37 Daisuke Hayakawa | 38 Clayton Hamilton | 39 Yuta Naito | 40 Yoshiyuki Kuwahara | 41 Shinji Ohara | 42 Brett Harper | 43 Atsushi Kita | 44 Tomokazu Ohka | 45 Hiroyuki Fukuyama | 46 Kenjiro Tanaka | 47 Takayuki Makka | 48 Taketora Anzai | 49 Takehiro Fukuda | 50 Tatsuya Shimozono | 51 Junya Ohara | 52 Brandon Mann | 54 Yota Kosugi | 55 Go Kida | 56 Yo Sugihara | 57 Kenjiro Tsuruoka | 58 Atori Ota | 59 Toshiyuki Kurobane | 60 Shoma Satoh | 61 Shingo Takeyama | 62 Yuki Takamori | 63 Takayuki Kajitani | 64 Suguru Matsuyama | 66 Wang Yizheng |
Coaching: Manager 87 Takao Obana
Categories:- 1973 births
- Living people
- People from Nara Prefecture
- Japanese baseball players
- Taiyō Whales players
- Yokohama BayStars players
- Baseball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic baseball players of Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Olympic medalists in baseball
- Japanese baseball pitcher stubs
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs
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