Hideaki Wakui | |||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Wakui with the Chunichi Dragons in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Chunichi Dragons – No. 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Starting pitcher | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born: Matsudo, Chiba, Japan | June 21, 1986|||||||||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
NPB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
March 29, 2005, for the Seibu Lions | |||||||||||||||||||||
NPB statistics (through 2023 season) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Win–loss record | 159-156 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Earned run average | 3.59 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Strikeouts | 1,998 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Holds | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Saves | 37 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hideaki Wakui (涌井 秀章, Wakui Hideaki, born June 21, 1986) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Seibu Lions / Saitama Seibu Lions, Chiba Lotte Marines and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Wakui pitched for the Japanese national team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2009 World Baseball Classic.[1][2]
His wife is a Japanese model Moe Oshikiri.