Kazumi Saito
- January 11, 2024
- Baseball Player
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Kazumi Saito |
| Date Of Birth | Nov 30, 1977(1977-11-30) |
| Age | 47 |
| Country | Japan |
| Horoscope | Sagittarius |
Kazumi Saito Biography
| Birthday | Nov 30 |
| Birth Year | 1977 |
Kazumi Saito is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on November 30, 1977 in Japan.
Saito had a particularly dominant month of August, pitching two shutouts en route to a 5-0 record for the month. He finished the season with an 18-5 record, 205 strikeouts and an astonishing 1.75 ERA, thus leading the league in all three Triple Crown categories (wins, strikeouts, ERA) as well as winning percentage and shutouts (the first pitcher since Suguru Egawa in 1981 to lead the league in all five categories). Saito was the unanimous pick for the Sawamura Award (his second), and although the Most Valuable Player award went to then-Fighters first baseman Michihiro Ogasawara, Saito actually collected more first-place votes. He also won his second Best Nine Award.
That year, then-Hanshin Tigers ace Kei Igawa had also posted 20 wins, making it the first time since 1982 that both Japanese leagues had produced 20-game winners. Incidentally, both pitchers received the Sawamura and Best Nine awards, making it also the first time that the Sawamura Award had ever been presented to two pitchers (one from the Central League, the other from the Pacific) in the same year. Saito led the Hawks to a Japan Series victory over Igawa’s Tigers (the two faced each other in Game 1), marking their first championship since 1999.
Kazumi Saito Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Baseball Player |
| House | Living in own house. |
Kazumi Saito is one of the richest Baseball Player from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kazumi Saito 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Kazumi Saito (斉藤 和巳 , Saitō Kazumi, born November 30, 1977 in Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan) is a retired Japanese professional baseball player. starting pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. He was a two-time winner of the Eiji Sawamura Award (2003, 2006), but did not pitch in a regular season game after October 2007 due to various shoulder injuries.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 6 ft 4 in |
Kazumi Saito height 6 ft 4 in Frank weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
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Hawks manager Sadaharu Oh called Saito out in January prior to the 2003 season, saying, “Our ace [this year] is either Saito or [Hayato] Terahara.” Saito was appointed the Opening Day starter for the first time in his career, taking the mound on March 28 against the Chiba Lotte Marines. Despite having only nine career wins up until that year, Saito had a phenomenal year, going 16-0 to start the season and later becoming the first 20-game winner in the Pacific League since Yoshinori Sato in 1985. Finishing the season with a 20-3 record, he led the league in wins and winning percentage (.870) and was tied for first in ERA (he and Daisuke Matsuzaka gave up the same number of earned runs in the same number of innings, posting identical ERAs of 2.83).
Facts & Trivia
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In 2005, despite being named the Hawks’ Opening Day starter during Spring training, recurring pains in his shoulder forced Saito to commit to rehab again (Tsuyoshi Wada started in his place). Nevertheless, he made his first start of the season on April 27 against the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, the first of a 15-game win streak that lasted until September 7 in a game against the Orix BlueWave. Not only did Saito become the first pitcher to win 15 consecutive games since Shibakuni Mashiba in 1981, he also became the first pitcher in NPB history to have multiple win streaks of 14 games or more (the first time he achieved this was in 2003). He finished the season at 16-1, leading the league in winning percentage (.941). However, he was rocked around yet again in the playoffs, failing to lead the Hawks to a league title.