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SHOHEI OTANI

Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 25, 2013
Rookie Otani makes All-Star team as outfielder
Highly touted Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters rookie Shohei Otani was selected third in fan balloting among Pacific League outfielders to make the roster for the upcoming All-Star Series after the final results were announced on Monday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 19, 2013
Fighters rally past Carp in interleague finale
Hokkaido Nippon Ham rookie right-hander Shohei Otani made his debut pitching and batting in the same game, tossing four innings of three-run ball while batting in the No. 5 spot in the Fighters' 7-4 win over the Hiroshima Carp on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 2, 2013
Nippon Ham's Otani earns first NPB victory
A three-home run salvo helped lift Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters rookie Shohei Otani (1-0) to his first career victory, a 7-3 win over the Chunichi Dragons on Saturday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
May 24, 2013
Fighters rookie Otani makes solid impression in mound debut
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 24, 2013
Fighters, Swallows settle for tie in Otani's NPB piching debut
Highly touted Fighters rookie Shohei Otani, who passed up a chance to sign with a major league club to stay in Japan, allowed two runs in five innings on Thursday in his first-team pitching debut as Hokkaido Nippon Ham and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows played to a 3-3 tie in 12 innings.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 17, 2013
Fighters rookie pitcher Otani to start first NPB game on May 23
Pitcher Shohei Otani, who turned down his chance to sign with a major league club out of high school to join the Nippon Ham Fighters, will make his pitching debut on May 23, manager Hideki Kuriyama announced Thursday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Apr 12, 2013
Morgan hopes to aid BayStars' climb out of CL cellar
There are so many written and unwritten rules around baseball that sometimes people in the sport tend to take things a little too seriously.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 11, 2013
Fighters rookie Otani 'ready' for pro pitching debut
The "Shohei Otani Experience" shifts ever so slightly towards its second phase on Thursday, when the celebrated rookie is scheduled to make his pitching debut for the Kamagaya Fighters, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' ni-gun squad.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Apr 2, 2013
Bar set high for rookie stars Sugano, Otani
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters have spent a first-round draft pick on the top pitching prospect in Japan in each of the last two years, and in both instances that player has initially said thanks, but no thanks.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 30, 2013
Otani ready for new challenges with Fighters
Shohei Otani spent part of his Saturday afternoon being shepherded around one of Makuhari Messe's spacious international exhibition halls while having ham shoved in his mouth.

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