Tsuyoshi Wada
| Tsuyoshi Wada 和田 毅 |
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Wada with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in 2016.
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Born: February 21, 1981 Kōnan, Aichi, Japan |
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| Professional debut | |||
| NPB: April 1, 2003, for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks | |||
| MLB: July 8, 2014, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
| NPB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 122-66 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.12 | ||
| Strikeouts | 1,486 | ||
| MLB statistics (through 2015 season) |
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| Win–loss record | 5–5 | ||
| Earned run average | 3.36 | ||
| Strikeouts | 88 | ||
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| Medal record | ||
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| Men's baseball | ||
Representing  Japan
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| Olympic Games | ||
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2004 Athens | Team competition |
| World Baseball Classic | ||
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2006 San Diego | Team competition |
Tsuyoshi Wada (和田 毅 Wada Tsuyoshi?, born February 21, 1981) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Nippon Professional Baseball League (NPB).
Wada pitched in the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2006 World Baseball Classic for the Japanese national team. He set a Tokyo Big6 Baseball League record with 476 strikeouts during his college career at Waseda University and was the Pacific League Most Valuable Rookie in 2003.
Wada was born in Kōnan, Aichi Prefecture, a member of the age group often referred to as the "Matsuzaka Generation". He began playing baseball as a first grader at Kōnan Municipal Fujisato Elementary School for the Kōnan Danchi Baseball team.
In 1991, Wada and his family moved to Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Wada's father's hometown. Wada enrolled in Shimane Prefectural Hamada High School in Hamada upon graduating from junior high, leading them to the 79th National High School Baseball Championship in the summer of his second year of high school (the equivalent of eleventh grade in the United States) in 1997. His team faced Akita Commercial High School, led by current Tokyo Yakult Swallows ace Masanori Ishikawa, in the first round, but Wada walked that very Ishikawa with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning and suffered a walk-off loss.
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