Daisuke Matsuzaka

Daisuke Matsuzaka 松坂 大輔
Matsuzaka with the Mets in 2014
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – No. 18
Pitcher
Born: (1980-09-13) September 13, 1980 (age 36) Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Bats: Right Throws: Right
Professional debut
NPB: April 7, 1999, for the Seibu Lions
MLB: April 5, 2007, for the Boston Red Sox
NPB statistics
Win–loss record	108–60
Earned run average	2.96
Strikeouts	1,357
MLB statistics (through 2014 season)
Win–loss record	56–43
Earned run average	4.45
Strikeouts	720
Teams
Seibu Lions (1999–2006) Boston Red Sox (2007–2012) New York Mets (2013–2014) Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (2015–present)
Career highlights and awards
NPB Pacific League Rookie of the Year (1999) 3× NPB win leader (1999–2001) 4× NPB strikeout leader (2000–2001, 2003, 2005) 2× NPB ERA leader (2003–2004) Eiji Sawamura Award (2001) 3× NPB Best Nine Award (1999–2001) 7× Mitsui Golden Glove Award (1999–2001, 2003–2006) 7× NPB All-Star (1999–2001, 2004–2006) Japan Series champion (2004) MLB World Series champion (2007) Japan National Team 2× World Baseball Classic champion (2006, 2009) 2× World Baseball Classic MVP (2006, 2009) 2x All-World Baseball Classic Team (2006, 2009) Other Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize (1999)

Daisuke Matsuzaka

Matsuzaka pitching for Japan national team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic
Medal record
Men's baseball
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	Team
World Baseball Classic
	2006 San Diego	Team
World Baseball Classic
	2009 Los Angeles	Team
Asian Baseball Championship
	1999 Seoul	Team
Asian Baseball Championship
	2003 Sapporo	Team

NPB

MLB

Japan National Team

Other

Daisuke Matsuzaka (松坂 大輔, Matsuzaka Daisuke^?, born September 13, 1980) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. He has played for the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Matsuzaka was selected the MVP of the inaugural and the second World Baseball Classic, and is an Olympic bronze medalist. He is the first player to have won both a World Baseball Classic and a World Series and for 6 years the only one until Robinson Canó, Octavio Dotel and Santiago Casilla joined him after the 2013 competition and 2006 WBC teammate Koji Uehara did with his 2013 World Series win.