Hisashi Yamada

Hisashi Yamada
山田久志

Hisashi Yamada at Bs SQUARE Open, Kyosera Dome, Osaka, March 7, 2014

Pitcher

Born: July 29, 1948 (age 68)
Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, Japan

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

NPB debut

1969, for the Hankyu Braves

Last appearance

1988, for the Hankyu Braves

NPB statistics

ERA

3.18

Win-Loss-Tie

284-166-38

Strikeouts

2058

Teams

As player

Hankyu Braves (1969 – 1988)

As coach

Orix BlueWave (1994 – 1996)
Chunichi Dragons (1999 – 2001)

As manager

Chunichi Dragons (1999 – 2003)

Career highlights and awards

3× Pacific League MVP (1976, 1977, 1978)
4x 20-game-winner

Member of the Japanese

Baseball Hall of Fame

Inducted

2006

Hisashi Yamada (山田久志, Yamada Hisashi^?, born July 29, 1948 in Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, Japan) is a retired Japanese professional baseball submarine pitcher. He played with the Hankyu Braves in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1969 to 1988.

Yamada won the Pacific League MVP for three years in a row (1976 to 1978), sharing a record with Ichiro Suzuki (1994–1996) for the most consecutive awards won. In addition, Yamade won the Japan Series MVP in 1977. He won 20 or more games four times in his career, including notching 26 victories in 1976. Yamada twice won the Pacific League earned run average championship, with marks of 2.37 in 1971 and 2.28 in 1977.

As manager of the Chunichi Dragons in 1999, he led the team to the Central League pennant.

He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.

In 2009, Yamada served as a coach for the Japanese team in the World Baseball Classic.

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