Tsuyoshi Nishioka

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tsuyoshi Nishioka
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Jul 27, 1984(1984-07-27)
Age	40
Birthplace	Daito
Country	Japan
Birth City	Osaka Prefecture
Horoscope	Cancer

Tsuyoshi Nishioka Biography

Tsuyoshi Nishioka is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on July 27, 1984 in Daito, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Tsuyoshi Nishioka (Xi Gang Gang, Nishioka Tsuyoshi born on July 27 1984) is a Japanese professional infielder of the professional game who is an unrestricted free agent. He has been a part of both Pacific League and Central League in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB).

Nishioka was a star in 2005. He began as an infielder backup but beginning at shortstop and second base with veteran Koichi Hori as well as Makoto Kosaka in a non-traditional platoon system as the year progressed. Nishioka’s batting average was .268 however he lead by a wide margin in the Pacific League in triples (11) and stole bases (41) as well as playing crucial roles in the Marines who won their debut Japan Series championship since 1974. The fact that he split his times between two positions in the middle of the field led to an untypical situation where he took home the Pacific League Best Nine Award at shortstop as well as also the Golden Glove Award at second base (incidentally the double-play teammates Hori and Kosaka received with the Best Nine Award at second base, as well as also the Golden Glove Award at shortstop and shortstop, respectively).

Nishioka has finished among the league leaders in stolen bases numerous times, but was clocked at an only moderately fast 6.1 seconds in the 50-meter dash in high school and does not have blazing speed. Though he has made a name for himself as a base stealer by becoming skilled at reading pitchers’ motions and getting good jumps rather than relying on his outright speed, his career stolen base percentage remains a mediocre 71.6 percent (65.5 percent from 2006 to 2008), a success rate that pales in comparison to that of elite base stealers like Hanshin Tigers outfielder Norihiro Akahoshi and Yomiuri Giants outfielder Takahiro Suzuki. (Modern sabermetric theory suggests that a team’s run production is only positively affected by stolen bases when a player is successful at a rate of at least 70 to 75 percent.)

Nishioka’s first stint with the Japanese national team came in the inaugural World Baseball Classic held in 2006. He played in all eight games and hit .255 with two home runs and five stolen bases as the team’s No. 2 hitter and starting second baseman, driving in eight runs and scoring five and playing an integral role in Japan’s championship run.

Nishioka was a follower by coach Yoshihiko Takahashi, and became the switch hitter of his second season in the professional game (2004). (He is one of the very few instances that a natural right-handed athlete changing from hitting left-handed to switching to hitting on the field in Japanese professional baseball in the present.) The first time he hit a professional homer at the ichigun level, off of Seibu righty Mitsutaka Goto on June 27 and registered his first stolen base in the same match. He hit seven homers as well as 35 RBI during the entire season (though the average of his was only .255 while his on-base rate was a meager. 304).

Tsuyoshi Nishioka Net Worth

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

Nishioka was the one who led Osaka Toin to the 84th National High School Baseball Championship during his final year of high school, as coach and the lead off hitter but the team was eliminated in the opening round, losing to Toho High School, the Aichi champions. Despite not having much success on the national scene, Nishioka hit 42 home runs during his time at the high school level mostly as a second baseman and was thought to be to be among the top prospects for high school in the nation by NPB Scouts. Nishioka was picked as the second round in 2002’s NPB amateur draft, which was held in October with Chiba Lotte Marines. Chiba Lotte Marines.

In 2003, during his rookie season, Nishioka was assigned to the Ichigun (Japanese equivalent to “major league”) team during spring training, but Nishioka was transferred to the team called the nigun (“minor league” or “farm team”) for the season’s opener. Nishioka was called up to the ichigun squad in the middle of June and made his debut in the professional ranks on June 23rd, as a pinch-runner, hitting a double off the then-Orix BlueWave left-hander Hisashi Tokano in his debut plate game on the 28th of June to score an ace debut in his pro career. He was then removed to the minors after just a couple of games. His .216 per-inning batting average was among the lowest among the eligible players from the Eastern League.

Nishioka has many attributes that make him a skilled shortstop, including quick reflexes, soft hands and an exceptional throwing arm (he clocked 142 km/h (88 mph) in his first pitch in an informal pre-game contest in 2006). He has some of the best range of any Japanese shortstop; though he logged time at second base earlier in his career and can man both middle infield positions quite proficiently, manager Bobby Valentine played him almost exclusively at shortstop since 2006 to lessen the stress placed on his lower body. In 2011, Nishioka committed 12 errors while playing in just 68 games for the Twins. In three games in 2012, Nishioka committed three errors, which included misplaying an infield popup.

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Nishioka was named to the Japanese national team for the second time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, playing in eight of Japan’s nine games and recording the highest batting average (.455), on-base percentage (.556), and slugging percentage (.636) of any player on the team who logged more than 10 at-bats. However, despite being viewed as one of the favorites to win the gold prior to the tournament, Japan lost to South Korea in the semi-finals on August 22, and to the United States in the bronze medal match held the following day, finishing fourth behind South Korea, Cuba and the United States.

Facts & Trivia

Tsuyoshi Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Tsuyoshi Nishioka celebrates birthday on July 27 of every year.

Nishioka was named to the national team’s preliminary roster for the upcoming World Baseball Classic in early 2009 along with teammate Shunsuke Watanabe, but was ultimately cut from the final 28-man team. He continued to be bothered by injuries once the regular season began, hitting .263 for the month of April (albeit with a .391 on-base percentage) but missing several games in the opening weeks of the season with a right hamstring injury as well as a bruise to the right tarsus suffered when sliding into second base to break up a double play and colliding with second baseman Yosuke Takasu in the fifth inning of a game against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on April 16.