Yoshihiro Maru

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yoshihiro Maru
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Apr 11, 1989(1989-04-11)
Age	35
Country	Japan
Birth City	Katsura
Horoscope	Aries

Yoshihiro Maru Biography

Yoshihiro Maru is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on April 11, 1989 in Katsura, Japan. Yoshihiro Maru (Wan Jia Hao, Maru Yoshihiro) is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Yomiuri Giants (NPB). He was previously a Hiroshima Toyo Carp player.

He was playing a center position, often hitting second or leadoff by 2013, and was back in the starting role. He was caught 15 times and produced a.273/.376/.425 rate with 85 walks, 14 home runs and 82 runs. After fielding.992, he won a Gold Glove. Sho Aranami, Hisayoshi Chono and other CL Gold Glove winners were also in his category. He tied Chonost for second after Wladimir Balentien in runs, doubles (25-9th), triples (5th), steals (1t, 5 over Hayato Sakamoto), caught stealing (1t, 6 more than anyone else), walks (4th between Shinnosuke Ae and Kazuhiro Wada), strikeouts (103, 6th between Chono and Balentien) and OBP (6th between Murata and Wada). He was the first member of the CL All-Star Team.

Maru represented the Japan national baseball team at the 2014 MLB Japan All- Star Series, 2015 exhibition games against Europe and 2019 WBSC Premier12.

Early in 2014, he became the Carp’s regular #3 batter. He hit .310/.419/.491 with 30 doubles, 5 triples, 19 home runs, 100 walks, 106 runs and 26 steals in 37 tries. He fielded .993 and this time also had 8 outfield assists. He was the 22nd player in NPB history to reach triple-digits in walks. He finished the year all over the CL leaderboards: 9th in average (between Kazuhiro Hatakeyama and Shingo Kawabata), 2nd in OBP (only .0003 behind Balentien), 8th in slugging (between Hector Luna and Hatakeyama), 3rd in OPS (behind Balentien and Tetsuto Yamada), tied for first in runs (with Yamada), 8th in hits (166), tied for 6th in doubles (with Mauro Gomez), tied for second in triples (four shy of Takayuki Kajitani), tied for 9th in homers (with Abe), 3rd in steals (behind Kajitani and Oshima), 2nd in caught stealing (one behind Oshima), led in walks (13 over Takashi Toritani) while falling to a tie for 9th in whiffs (with Yamada and Balentien) and 5th in total bases (263). He won his second Gold Glove and made the Best Nine as one of the CL’s top three flyhawks (alongside Yuhei Takai and Matt Murton). He got three second-place votes for the 2014 Central League Most Valuable Player Award.

On April 19, 2011, Tomokazu Ohka hit his first NPB homer. Hiroshima’s first center fielder in that year was he, surpassing Masato Akamatsu and Soichiro Ahamaya. He was.241/.319/.359. He finished 4th in Central League with 105 strikeouts, between TakahiroArai and Shuichi Murata. He batted.247/.353/.353 in 2012 with 14 steals in 20 tries. This split CF with Akamatsu, Amaya, and Jun Hirose in RF.

Yoshihiro Maru Net Worth

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

Hiroshima Toyo Carp was selected in the third round of 2007 NPB draft [jp].

His first year in minors was shortened by injuries to his elbow, toe and norovirus. In 2010, he hit.277 and had 21 steals in minors. Later in the year, he was called up to Hiroshima. Marc Kroon retired him after he had pinch-hit for Ren Nakata in his debut. Takehiko Oshimoto was his first hit, singing as a pinch-hitter to Keisuke Ichimai. In 14 games, he was 3 for 19, with two walks and a steal.

With Japan for the 2014 MLB Japan All-Star Series, he went 3 for 13 with a RBI triple, playing center when Yuki Yanagita was in right. He also was with Japan for the 2015 Global Baseball Match against Team Europe, going 0 for 3 with a walk, playing left when Sho Nakata manned first.

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Maru was again dominant in 2018 despite missing time with a hamstring injury: .306/.468/.627, 39 HR, 130 BB, 109 R, 97 RBI, .996 fielding percentage. He was second in runs (21 behind Yamada), second in homers (two behind Neftali Soto), 4th in RBI (between Dayan Viciedo and Soto), first in walks (24 more than Yamada), first in OBP (.030 ahead of Suzuki), second in slugging (.017 behind Soto) and first in OPS (39 ahead of Suzuki). He joined Suzuki and Soto in getting the Best Nine honors and won another Gold Glove. He won the 2018 CL MVP award, with 241 first-place votes (221 ahead of runner-up Daichi Osera) and 1,314 vote points (Osera was next at 482). He was the first repeat MVP in the CL since Alex Ramirez 9 years prior and the first Japanese native to repeat as CL MVP since the legendary Sadaharu Oh in the late 1970s. He became a free agent at year’s end.

Facts & Trivia

Yoshihiro Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yoshihiro Maru celebrates birthday on April 11 of every year.