Ryōsuke Hirata

Japanese baseball player

Baseball player

Ryōsuke Hirata
平田良介

Hirata with the Chunichi Dragons

Chunichi Dragons
Outfielder/Coach
Born: (1988-03-23) March 23, 1988 (age 36)
Jōtō-ku, Osaka, Japan

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

NPB debut
2006, for the Chunichi Dragons
NPB statistics
(through April 7, 2022)
Batting average| .270
Home runs| 104
RBI| 477
Teams
As player

* Chunichi Dragons (2006–2022)

As coach

* Chunichi Dragons (2025–Present)

Career highlights and awards

* NPB All-Star (2018)
* Central League Golden Glove Award (2018)
* Central League Best Nine Award (2015)
* Central League Monthly MVP (June 2011)

Medals

Men's baseball
Representing  Japan
2015 WBSC Premier12
|  2015 Tokyo | Team
World Baseball Classic
|  2017 Los Angeles | Team

Ryōsuke Hirata (平田 良介, Hirata Ryōsuke, born March 23, 1988 in Osaka) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder. He last played for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Dragons over a 16-year period.

He is currently an outfield defense and baserunning coach for the Dragons.

## Career

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Hirata attended Osaka Tōin High School and was a member of the team that advanced to the semi-finals of the 2005 national championships. and tied Kazuhiro Kiyohara's record of 5 home runs at the tournament. He hit a total of 70 home runs during his three years of high school. He was drafted by the Dragons in the first round of the 2005 rookie draft.[1]

In 2015, Hirata was made team captain of the Dragons marking the first time the Dragons had an appointed captain since Tōru Nimura in 1994.[2]

In 2018, Hirata was selected for the 2018 NPB All-Star game [jp].[3]

## References

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1. ^ "2005年 中日ドラゴンズ" [2005 Chunichi Dragons] (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 November 2015.
2. ^ "中日平田が来季主将「谷繁監督を胴上げする」" [Chuinichi's Hirata to be next season's captain "I want to lift up Tanishige-kantoku in victory"]. 2015-11-26 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-09-25.
3. ^ "マイナビオールスターゲーム2018 出場者". NPB.jp 日本野球機構 (in Japanese). July 3, 2018.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ryosuke Hirata.

* Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
* NPB.com

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Chunichi Dragons current roster

Pitchers|

* 7 Akira Neo
* 11 Shinnosuke Ogasawara
* 13 Yūki Hashimoto
* 14 Shō Kusaka
* 16 Shō Iwasaki
* 17 Yūya Yanagi
* 18 Kōdai Umetsu
* 19 Hiroto Takahashi
* 20 Hideaki Wakui
* 22 Yūdai Ōno
* 24 Kōji Fukutani
* 28 Hiroto Mori
* 31 Reia Nakachi
* 33 Daisuke Sobue
* 34 Hiroto Fuku
* 36 Kōnosuke Fukuda
* 38 Takahiro Matsuba
* 41 Akiyoshi Katsuno
* 46 Yūgo Umeno
* 48 Shōta Habu
* 50 Tatsuya Shimizu
* 54 Kento Fujishima
* 59 Kōki Saitō
* 69 Yūta Matsukihira
* 90 Shinya Matsuyama
* 91 Humberto Mejía
* 92 Raidel Martínez
* \- Yumeto Kanemaru
* \- Seiya Yoshida
* \- Kōsuke Takahashi
* \- Keito Arima

Catchers|

* 35 Takuya Kinoshita
* 39 Shingo Usami
* 43 Taisei Miya
* 49 Takuma Katō
* 57 Ryūnosuke Yamaasa
* 58 Kōta Ishibashi
* \- Yūtaro Ishii

Infielders|

* 2 Mikiya Tanaka
* 3 Shūhei Takahashi
* 5 Kaito Muramatsu
* 6 Shō Nakata
* 25 Takaya Ishikawa
* 27 Keishi Tsuda
* 29 Rintarō Tsujimoto
* 32 Masami Ishigaki
* 37 Shōnosuke Hama
* 45 Ryūku
* 60 Yasuhiro Yamamoto
* 68 Hiroki Fukunaga
* 95 Cristián Rodríguez
* 97 Seishū Higuchi
* 99 Orlando Calixte
* \- Shunta Mori

Outfielders|

* 00 Gōki Oda
* 1 Yūki Okabayashi
* 4 Kōsuke Ukai
* 8 Yōhei Ōshima
* 42 Kenta Bright
* 44 Seiji Kawagoe
* 51 Seiji Uebayashi
* 53 Shunta Gotō
* 55 Seiya Hosokawa
* 63 Yutaro Itayama

Development|

* 207 Mao Hoshino
* 208 Shō Ishikawa
* 209 Yūma Fukumoto
* 210 Toshiya Okada
* 212 Tento Nonaka
* 213 Akio Moriyama
* 214 Ren Kondō
* 215 Tōki Hiwatari
* 216 Towa Kikuta
* 218 Rii Kawakami
* 220 Carlos Monier
* \- Naiki Nakamura
* \- Kenya Inoue
* \- Ryūma Katō
* \- Mizuki Miura

First squad
coaching|

* Manager: 89 Kazuki Inoue
* Chief Hitting coach:Nobuhiko Matsunaka
* Hitting group coach: Masaaki Koike
* Position player coach: Yūji Iiyama
* Pitching coaches: 76 Akinori Ōtsuka, Shinichirō Koyama
* Battery coach: 80 Kōhei Oda
* Baserunning/defense coaches: 71 Naomichi Donoue, Ryōsuke Hirata

Second squad
coaching|

* Manager: Eiji Ochiai
* Pitching coach: 83 Daisuke Yamai, 82 Takuya Asao, Shinji Tajima
* Hitting coaches: 84 Nobumasa Fukuda, 78 Masahiko Morino
* Battery coach: 72 Shōta Ōno
* Baserunning/defense coaches: 81 Yūto Morikoshi, 87 Yutaka Nakamura
* Position player development coach: 85 Hiroyuki Watanabe
* Development Coach: Masato Kobayashi

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Chunichi Dragons captains

* Tōru Nimura (1994)
* Ryōsuke Hirata (2016)
* Shūhei Takahashi (2019-2021)
* Yūdai Ōno/Yōhei Ōshima (2022-Present)

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Japan roster – 2015 WBSC Premier12

* 2 Kenta Imamiya
* 3 Nobuhiro Matsuda
* 5 Shingo Kawabata
* 6 Hayato Sakamoto
* 7 Akira Nakamura
* 8 Ryosuke Hirata
* 9 Takuya Nakashima
* 10 Yuki Matsui
* 11 Tomoyuki Sugano
* 13 Sho Nakata
* 14 Takahiro Norimoto
* 15 Hirokazu Sawamura
* 16 Shohei Ohtani
* 18 Kenta Maeda
* 19 Hirotoshi Masui
* 21 Yuki Nishi
* 22 Yūdai Ōno
* 23 Tetsuto Yamada
* 24 Yasuaki Yamasaki
* 25 Yoshi Tsutsugo
* 27 Ginjiro Sumitani
* 29 Yasuhiro Ogawa
* 30 Shota Takeda
* 35 Kazuhisa Makita
* 37 Motohiro Shima
* 52 Yuhei Nakamura
* 55 Shogo Akiyama
* 60 Takeya Nakamura

* Manager 90 Hiroki Kokubo
* Coach 73 Hiroshi Narahara
* Coach 79 Takayuki Ohnishi
* Coach 80 Atsunori Inaba
* Coach 87 Toshihisa Nishi
* Coach 88 Akihiro Yano
* Coach 89 Yoshitaka Katori

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Japan roster – 2017 World Baseball Classic

* 1 Seiichi Uchikawa
* 2 Kosuke Tanaka
* 3 Nobuhiro Matsuda
* 4 Ryosuke Kikuchi
* 6 Hayato Sakamoto
* 7 Nori Aoki
* 8 Ryosuke Hirata
* 9 Ginjiro Sumitani
* 10 Yuki Matsui
* 11 Tomoyuki Sugano
* 12 Ryo Akiyoshi
* 13 Sho Nakata
* 14 Takahiro Norimoto
* 15 Naoki Miyanishi
* 17 Shintaro Fujinami
* 19 Hirotoshi Masui
* 20 Ayumu Ishikawa
* 22 Seiji Kobayashi
* 23 Tetsuto Yamada
* 25 Yoshi Tsutsugo
* 27 Shōta Ōno
* 30 Shota Takeda
* 34 Toshiya Okada
* 35 Kazuhisa Makita
* 37 Motohiro Shima
* 41 Kodai Senga
* 51 Seiya Suzuki
* 55 Shogo Akiyama
* 66 Yoshihisa Hirano

* Manager 90 Hiroki Kokubo
* Coach 72 Hiroshi Gondoh
* Coach 73 Hiroshi Narahara
* Coach 79 Takayuki Ohnishi
* Coach 87 Toshihisa Nishi
* Coach 80 Atsunori Inaba
* Coach 84 Yoshinori Murata

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* VIAF

National|

* Japan

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