Koji Uehara

Koji Uehara 上原 浩治
Uehara with the Red Sox in 2013
Chicago Cubs – No. 19
Pitcher
Born: (1975-04-03) April 3, 1975 (age 41) Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan
Bats: Right Throws: Right
Professional debut
NPB: March 29, 1999, for the Yomiuri Giants
MLB: April 8, 2009, for the Baltimore Orioles
NPB statistics
Win–loss record	112–62
Earned run average	3.01
Strikeouts	1,376
MLB statistics (through 2016 season)
Win–loss record	19–22
Earned run average	2.53
Strikeouts	522
Saves	93
Teams
Yomiuri Giants (1999–2008) Baltimore Orioles (2009–2011) Texas Rangers (2011–2012) Boston Red Sox (2013–2016)
Career highlights and awards
NPB 1999 Central League Rookie of the Year 2x NPB wins champion (1999, 2002) 2x NPB ERA champion (1999, 2004) 2x NPB strikeout champion (1999, 2003) 2x NPB MVP for Pitcher (1999, 2002) 2x Eiji Sawamura Award (1999, 2002) 2x NPB Best Nine Award (1999, 2002) 2x Golden Glove (1999, 2003) 2x Japan Series champion (2000, 2002) 2x Speedup Award (1999, 2004) 8x NPB All-Star selection (1999–2005, 2007) MLB All-Star (2014) World Series champion (2013) ALCS MVP (2013) World Baseball Classic World Baseball Classic champion 2006

Medal record
Men's baseball
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	Team competition
World Baseball Classic
	2006 San Diego	Team competition

NPB

MLB

World Baseball Classic

Koji Uehara (上原 浩治, Uehara Kōji^?, born April 3, 1975) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) with the Yomiuri Giants and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox.

A right-handed pitcher, Uehara has a solid MLB career strikeout rate, with 10.73 K/9 and walk rate of 1.36 BB/9 (through the 2016 season). Through the 2016 season, his career 7.91 K/BB is the best in MLB history for a player with at least 100 innings pitched. Uehara won the 2013 ALCS MVP Award, and closed the final game of the 2013 World Series. With his World Series win, Uehara became one of four players in history to have won both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic.

Uehara graduated from the Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences, and was drafted with the first pick by the Yomiuri Giants in 1998. He had a successful rookie year in 1999, with 15 consecutive wins that broke the all-time rookie record, claimed the Rookie of the Year, Eiji Sawamura Award, and led in wins, ERA, strikeouts and winning percentage.