Hideaki Wakui
- January 11, 2024
- Baseball Player
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Hideaki Wakui |
| Date Of Birth | Jun 21, 1986(1986-06-21) |
| Age | 38 |
| Birthplace | Matsudo |
| Country | Japan |
| Birth City | Chiba Prefecture |
| Horoscope | Gemini |
Hideaki Wakui Biography
| Birthday | Jun 21 |
| Birth Year | 1986 |
Hideaki Wakui is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on June 21, 1986 in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Hideaki Wakui (Yong Jing Xiu Zhang / Wakui Hideaki) is a Japanese Professional Baseball pitcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (NPB). He has previously played for the Seibu Lions/Saitama Seibu Lions, and Chiba Lotte Marines.
Wakui was able to lead his team to another national championship berth in
- This time, it was the 86th National High School Baseball Championship. It took place at Koshien Stadium. In the first round against Hotoku Gakuen High School, he pitched a 10 strikeout complete win. In the second round, he won a thrilling 1-0 victory over Kyoto Gaidai Nishi High School (an affiliated school of Kyoto University of Foreign Studies). He then won a 12-strikeout win over Meitoku Gijuku Senior High School. His fastball reached speeds of 147 km/h (91 mph). He was unable to match Komazawa University Tomakomai high school in the quarter-finals. He gave up 14 hits and six earned runs and allowed Yuya Hayashi, second baseman, to reach for the cycle.
On March 26, 2006, his first start of the season, Wakui earned a win against the Orix Buffaloes with Ginjiro Sumitani behind the plate (an 18-year-old rookie catcher straight out of high school), marking the first time a pitcher and catcher both in their teens had won a game in Japanese professional baseball since Tadanori Ishii (now Takuro Ishii) and Motonobu Tanishige accomplished the feat for the Yokohama Taiyo Whales in 1989. The two combined for another win on April 23 against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, the first complete game win as well as the first shutout of Wakui’s career.
That year, Wakui was named to the Japanese national team to play in the 2007 Asian Baseball Championship (which also functioned as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2008 Beijing Olympics). He and fellow 21-year-old Darvish, who had both been chosen to the national team for the first time, were the youngest members of the team. Wakui started in the Japan’s first game against the Philippines and held them to just one hit over six shutout innings (Japan won the game 10–0 in seven innings as per the mercy rule).
The Seibu Lions selected Wakui in the first round, and later gave him the uniform number 16. His repertoire included a fastball of 148 km/h (92mph) and a slider.
Hideaki Wakui Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Baseball Player |
| House | Living in own house. |
Hideaki Wakui is one of the richest Baseball Player from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hideaki Wakui 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Wakui accepted an offer from the team to change his uniform number to 18 in the off-season. This number denotes Japan’s ace pitcher. Matsuzaka was the last player to sport the number for the Lions. He pitched for them between 1999 and 2006.
Wakui attended Yokohama Senior High School. This school was the alma mater for former Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Mattsuzaka. It is a baseball powerhouse that has sent more Japanese players to the pros than any other highschool in Japan, except PL Gakuen Senior High. He was there to play in the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament 2003 with Yoshihisa Naruse, who was one year older than Wakui. This tournament is the equivalent of eleventh grade in America. Wakui, despite only having been a relief pitcher up to then, was selected to pitch in the tournament finals. He gave up six runs in 3/3 innings to Koryo High School who, under current Yomiuri Giants pitcher Kentaro Nishura, won with a 15-3 win.
Wakui was named to the Lions’ ichigun (Japanese equivalent of “major league”) roster for their season opener in his rookie season (2005), earning the first win of his professional career on June 18 in the last interleague game of the season against the Yakult Swallows. However, he finished the year with just a 1–6 record and a 7.32 ERA, giving up 11 home runs in 55⁄3 innings.
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He finished the season with a 17–10 record, leading the league in wins for the first time. He also led both Pacific and Central leagues in innings pitched (213) and hits allowed (199) and came second to only Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters ace Yu Darvish in complete games (11).