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◆ Finished second in NPB Rookie of the Year Award voting, behind Takahiro Norimoto.
◆ Led Fighters with 51 games played in right field and also made 11 starts as a pitcher.
◆ Briefly missed time during year with a right ankle sprain and right cheekbone fracture.
NOTABLE PACIFIC LEAGUE AWARDS AND HONORS
◆ 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star.
◆ 2016 Pacific League Most Valuable Player...Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star...Designated Hitter Best Nine Award...
Pitcher Best Nine Award .
◆ 2015 Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star...Pitcher Best Nine Award...WBSC Player of the Year...Pacific League Battery
Award .
◆ 2014 Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star.
◆ 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star.
CAREER TRANSACTIONS
◆ Oct. 25, 2012...Selected by Nippon-Ham Fighters in first round of 2012 Nippon Professional Baseball Draft.
◆ Dec. 10, 2017...Signed by Angels as international free agent.
PERSONAL/MISC
◆ Shohei Ohtani .
◆ Father, Toru, played baseball for a semipro team sponsored by the local Mitsubishi plant in Ōshū, Japan...Mother,
Kayoko, was a competitive badminton player.
◆ In Dec. 2017, a limited edition Ohtani baseball card sold 17,323 copies in 24 hours, setting a new Topps Now record.
◆ Featured in a segment on “60 Minutes” on CBS in 2017.
◆ Was on 28-man roster for Japan’s team at 2017 World Baseball Classic, but withdrew due to an ankle injury.
◆ Played for Japanese National Team in 2015 Premier 12...During start against eventual champion South Korea,
carried a no-hitter into 7th inning...Named All-Star starting pitcher for the event.
◆ Following 2014 season, selected to Japanese national team, Samurai Japan, and participated in All-Star Series
against a team of Major League All-Stars...Was starting pitcher Nov. 18, 2014 at Sapporo Dome, opposing Angels
RHP Matt Shoemaker, who started for MLB.
◆ Wore jersey number 11 with Fighters, previously worn by Yu Darvish.
ohtani
◆ Attended Hanamaki Higashi High School in Iwate Prefecture...Participated in National High School Baseball
Championship in 2011 and National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament in 2012.
◆ Favorite hitter is Hideki Matsui and favorite pitcher is Yu Darvish.
◆ “Sho” from his given name comes from a soaring image of the military commander Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159-
1189), who is associated with the Ōshū and Hiraizumi areas, while “hei” comes from a reading of the first kanji
character used in the name “Hiraizumi.”
MISCELLANEOUS STATS
TWO-HR GAMES (3)
June 30, 2019 vs. Oakland Sept. 5, 2018 at Texas Aug. 3, 2018 vs. Cleveland
CAREER FIELDING
POS PCT G PO A E TC DP
P 1 .000 10 1 6 0 7 1
ohtani’s batting career highs

SEASON GAME
AVG .286 — 2019 H 4 — 3 times; last, 6/13/19 at TB
H 110 — 2019 HR 2 — 3 times; last, 6/30/19 vs. OAK
R 59 — 2018 R 4 — 9/5/18 at TEX
2B 21 — 2018 2B 2 — 3 times; last, 7/3/19 at TEX
HR 22 — 2018 RBI 5 — 9/7/19 at CWS
RBI 62 — 2019 SB 1 — 22 times; last, 9/7/19 at CWS
SB 12 — 2019 Hit Streak 11 — Aug. 10-20, 2019

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