Shuichi Murata

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shuichi Murata
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Dec 28, 1980(1980-12-28)
Age	44
Birthplace	Sasaguri
Country	Japan
Birth City	Fukuoka Prefecture
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Shuichi Murata Biography

Shuichi Murata is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on December 28, 1980 in Sasaguri, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Shuichi Murata (Cun Tian Xiu Yi Murata Shuichi was born on December 28th, 1980 in Sasaguri, Fukuoka, Japan) is a third baseman of the Tochigi Golden Braves of Baseball Challenge League. Murata was the top player in his team in the Central League in home runs in 2007 and 2008, and is one of the very few players who are purely home run hitters in Japanese professional baseball in the present. Murata was part of Beijing in the Beijing Olympics and his participation in 2009’s World Baseball Classic as a player of the Japanese national team. He also played cleanup throughout the 2009 World Baseball Classic.

Murata scored .275 with his 103 hit (tied for sixth in all-time) 20 homers (tied with the second most-used home run) as well as 70 RBI during his college career. He was awarded the Tohto University Baseball League Best Nine Award four times. Murata was chosen as a pre-draft player before the 2002 NPB amateur draft in the autumn of his senior season for the Yokohama BayStars. Ohno was a former player with Murata throughout high school and in college was selected into the sixth round of draft selection with the Hawks (he quit from the team in 2007.). The other prominent college athletes picked during the same selection are Tsuyoshi Wada as well as Nagisa Arakaki (Hawks), Katsuhiro Nagakawa (Hiroshima Toyo Carp), Hirotaka Egusa (Hanshin Tigers) and Gotoh Chikara Onodera and Gotoh (Lions).

Murata hit a total of 30 home runs during his high school career. Realizing that he “would never defeat Matsuzaka as long as [he] remained a pitcher”, decided he would become a position player upon enrolling in college. Among Murata’s teammates at the time were then-junior Kensuke Tanaka, who currently plays second base for the Fighters, and catcher Ryuji Ohno, who played for the Fukuoka Daiei and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks from 2003 to 2007.

Murata began the 2004 season as the BayStars’ starting third baseman and No. 5 hitter, but saw fewer starts as the season went on due to his spotty defense and abundance of strikeouts, with then-manager Daisuke Yamashita opting to use veteran Hitoshi Taneda or Seiichi Uchikawa at third base instead. He often hit in the 7-hole after the All-Star break, striking out less and improving on his on-base percentage but seeing a corresponding drop in his power numbers (home runs, slugging percentage).

In 2001, the year he was in his sophomore year Murata took his team through the semifinals in the All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series in June. He was then selected for the Japanese team to play at the 30th Japan- United United States NCAA Baseball Championships that was to take place later in the month. He set with a Tohto University Baseball League record for the most home runs in one season (previously set by the current Chiba Lotte Marines second baseman Tadahito Iguchi) with eight home runs in the fall of 2001.

Shuichi Murata Net Worth

Shuichi Murata is one of the richest Baseball Player from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shuichi Murata 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Murata ended the season with an .323 average with 46 homers (a record for the franchise) as well as 114 RBI and a batting average of more than .300 at the start of his professional career for only the second time, and being the top home run hitter in the Central League for the second time in a row this year (finishing just one point ahead that of Giants the slugger Alex Ramirez). Murata was the first Japanese player to be the leader of in the Central League in home runs during consecutive seasons, since the current Dragons director Hiromitsu Ochiai did it with the Dragons in the years 1990 and 1991 and was also the league’s top player in the percentage of slugging (.665) in addition to on-base plus (1.062). But despite his offensive output however, the BayStars ended up at the bottom of the Central League with a 48-94 record. It’s likely that this was the role of Murata finishing only 7th in Most Valuable Player voting and receiving just two first-place votes (Ramirez was the winner, who was averaging .319 in the Central League with 45 homers as well as more than 125 RBI received the award).

Murata was later promoted his way to Higashi Fukuoka High School and led the school to consecutive spots at national tournaments during their senior season (1998) being the school’s top pitcher. With an average speed of speed of 143 km/h (89 mph) speed, Murata carried his team to a 5-0 win over the Izumo Hokuryo Senior High School, in the debut game at the 70th National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (Higashi Fukuoka High’s debut participation in the tournament’s spring edition) However, the team fell to Yokohama Senior High School in the second round with a shutout of two hits by the current Boston Red Sox right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka, and allowing an unearned home run to the current Seibu Lions outfielder Taketoshi Gotoh. Although Murata’s team was able to secure an entry into the 80th National High School Baseball Championship held that summer, they fell to the present Orix Buffaloes team led by Katsuaki Furuki at Toyota Otani High School in the opening round.

Murata earned his second straight selection to the Japanese team prior to the 31st Japan-USA University Baseball Championship Series in the summer of his senior year (2002). He also played for the national team in the inaugural IBAF World University Baseball Championship held in Italy in August, contributing to the team’s bronze medal finish.

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Murata continued to develop as a hitter in 2007, playing all 144 regular season games as the starting third baseman and cleanup hitter and hitting over 30 home runs and driving in over 100 RBI for the second straight year. He hit his 100th career home run off Swallows ace Masanori Ishikawa on April 10 and showed improvement in his plate discipline, cutting his strikeouts from 153 to 177 and marking career highs in both on-base and slugging percentage (.376 and .553, respectively). Murata’s decision to use a heavier 950–960 g (34 oz) bat in the second half of the season after hitting just 13 home runs at the All- Star break was particularly effective, allowing him to hit 23 homers after the break alone. He passed then-Chunichi Dragons slugger Tyrone Woods, who had led him by eight homers at the end of August, and finished with 36 (one more than Swallows right fielder Aaron Guiel), leading the Central League in home runs for the first time in his career.

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Shuichi Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Shuichi Murata celebrates birthday on December 28 of every year.

Murata cemented his role as the team’s cleanup hitter in 2008, hitting just .231 with six home runs in the month of April but heating up in May and reaching the 30-homer plateau by the end of July. He hit the third walk-off home run of his career off closer Alex Graman in the tenth inning of a game against the Saitama Seibu Lions on June 21 and homered in five straight games from July 15 to 19 against the Carp and Giants, garnering selection to the national team for the upcoming Beijing Olympics. Even though he missed two- and-a-half weeks of the season due to the Olympics, Murata managed to reach 40 homers for the first time in his career on September 14.

Top Facts about Shuichi Murata

1. Shuichi Murata is a retired Japanese baseball player.
2. He played as a third baseman and first baseman.
3. Murata was born on October 17, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan.
4. He played for the Yokohama BayStars and Yomiuri Giants.
5. In his career, he hit 249 home runs and had a .277 batting average.
6. Murata won the Central League MVP award in 2009.
7. He was also named to the All-Star team six times.
8. Murata helped lead the Yokohama BayStars to their first Japan Series championship in 1998.
9. He retired from professional baseball in 2018 at age 37.
10. Murata is considered one of the greatest power hitters in Nippon Professional Baseball history.