Hiroyuki Nakajima
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Nakajima with the Saitama Seibu Lions
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| Orix Buffaloes – No. 1 | |||
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Born: July 31, 1982 Itami, Hyōgo, Japan |
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| NPB debut | |||
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| NPB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Batting average | .297 | ||
| Home runs | 180 | ||
| RBI | 831 | ||
| Stolen bases | 143 | ||
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Representing  Japan
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2009 Los Angeles | Team |
Hiroyuki Nakajima (中島 裕之 Nakajima Hiroyuki?, born July 31, 1982) is a Japanese professional baseball shortstop.
Nakajima played in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic for the Japanese national team. After the 2011 season, his Japanese team, the Seibu Lions, posted Nakajima to Major League Baseball, but Nakajima failed to reach an agreement with the New York Yankees. On December 17, 2012 he signed a two-year contract with the Oakland A's, champions of the Western Division of the American League. After spending two years in the United States, Nakajima announced in December 2014 that he had reached an agreement with the Orix Buffaloes and would be returning to Japan.
Nakajima was born in Itami, a city in Hyōgo, Japan. He was a pitcher during his days at Itami Municipal Sakuradai Elementary School, playing in a national tournament alongside batterymate Katsuki Yamazaki (who would become a catcher for the rival Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks a decade later). He played for Takarazuka Senior while attending Itami Municipal Tennōjigawa Junior High School, receiving offers to play for high school baseball powerhouses in other prefectures by coaches who came to see him play.
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