Toshiya Sugiuchi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Toshiya Sugiuchi
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Oct 30, 1980(1980-10-30)
Age	44
Birthplace	Ōnojō
Country	Japan
Birth City	Ōnojō
Horoscope	Capricorn

Toshiya Sugiuchi Biography

Toshiya Sugiuchi is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on October 30, 1980 in Ōnojō, Ōnojō, Japan. Toshiya Sugiuchi (杉内 俊哉 , Sugiuchi Toshiya, born October 30, 1980 in Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese baseball player. He is a left-handed starting pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants.

Nevertheless, Sugiuchi was named to the Japanese national team to play in the upcoming 2000 Sydney Olympics following the tournament (Japan finished fourth).

Suiguchi spent a total of three years in the industrial leagues, pitching despite recurring shoulder issues and working on his fastball velocity until it clocked 149 km/h (93 mph) (his fastball had hovered around 135 to 140 km/h (84 to 87 mph) in high school). The Fukuoka Daiei Hawks (currently the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks) selected Sugiuchi in the third round of the 2001 NPB amateur draft held that fall, presenting him with the uniform number 47, the same number as former Hawks left-hander Kimiyasu Kudo. (Sugiuchi had idolized Kudo, still an active pitcher with the Saitama Seibu Lions today, as a child.)

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries-Nagasaki earned a berth in the Industrial League All-Japan Baseball Championship in 2001. Sugiuchi held Nissan Motors to one run over eight innings in the semi-finals, and his team went on to win their first tournament title.

Sugiuchi went on to enroll at Kagoshima Jitsugyo High School, playing in the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament and National High School Baseball Championship (the two most prominent national tournaments in Japan, both held at Koshien Stadium) a total of three times. In the summer of 1998, then-senior Sugiuchi matched up with Sendai Senior High School ace Hiroshi Kisanuki (currently with the Yomiuri Giants), a highly touted draft prospect, in the finals of the Kagoshima Tournament, defeating the school 3–1 and earning a berth in the national championship.

Toshiya Sugiuchi Net Worth

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

On October 7, the Hawks sent Sugiuchi to the mound in their regular-season game against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in the hopes of avoiding a last- place finish in the pennant race. He and young Eagles hurler Masahiro Tanaka both threw nine shutout innings, sending the game to extra-innings, but the Eagles won in twelve innings. The Hawks finished the season with the worst record in the league for the first time since 1996.

While it was rumored that several NPB teams were considering picking him in the 1998 NPB amateur draft, Sugiuchi decided against declaring for the draft when his high school coach advised him that he would likely go no higher than the fourth round, instead opting to join an industrial league (a collection of amateur teams, each consisting wholly of employees of the owner corporation) team. He initially received an offer from JR Kyushu (Kyushu Railway Company) but eventually went on to join Mitsubishi Heavy Industries–Nagasaki.

Following an unspectacular first year in the industrial leagues, Sugiuchi and teammate and right-hander Takayuki Goto led Mitsubishi Heavy Industries- Nagasaki to a berth in the Intercity Baseball Tournament in 2000, but the team was knocked out in the quarter-finals against Mitsubishi Motors Kawasaki (currently Mitsubishi Fuso Kawasaki) when Sugiuchi gave up back-to-back home runs, the first a game-tying three-run shot and the second a solo arch.

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In 2006, Sugiuchi was named to the Japanese national team to play in the inaugural World Baseball Classic. However, he went 0–1 in two appearances with a 5.40 ERA, being charged with the loss in Japan’s second-round match against South Korea. He began strong but struggled as the season went on, putting up just 7 wins (5 losses) with a 3.53 ERA in 132⅔ innings. He took the mound in the Hawks’ first game of the second stage of the Pacific League playoffs, but left the game after giving up two runs in the first three innings and was charged with the loss.

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Sugiuchi had another comeback year in 2007, continuing his peculiar tradition of having a good season every other year. He became the Hawks’ de facto ace and went 15–6 with a 2.46 ERA, striking out 187 (the second-highest total of his career) in a career-high 197⅔ innings with five complete games and three shutouts. His presence was much-needed after an injury to the team’s ace, Kazumi Saito. From April 25 until August 4, Sugiuchi recorded quality starts in 15 of the 16 starts he made, with five complete games and two shutouts. He would not go longer than seven innings for the rest of the season, but did record a Game 2 victory against the Chiba Lotte Marines in the first stage of the Pacific League Climax Series to force a decisive Game 3.