Hideaki Wakui

• ( Saitama ) Seibu Lions (since 2005)

Hideaki Wakui (Japanese涌 井 秀 章, Hideaki Wakui; born June 21, 1986 in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture) is a Japanese baseball player on the position of the pitcher. He plays since his pro debut in 2005 for the Seibu Lions of the Japanese Pacific League. In 2009 he was awarded the Sawamura - Eiji Prize for the best pitcher in the league.

Wakui began in elementary school with softball and played in his high school time in the Little League Senior ( ritoru Shinia ) Baseball. Subsequently, he attended the private Yokohama High School, with which a year older than Yoshihisa Naruse advancing in Spring Koshien 2003 to the semi-finals, at the summer Koshien 2004 to the quarter-finals.

In the Draft 2004 Wakui was selected in the first round by the Seibu Lions. Already in the 2005 season he had 13 missions as a starter and, with more than 20 starts per year since 2006 for trunk rotation of the Lions. In 2006 he was first selected for the All -Star Game, to which he then 2007, 2009 and 2010 took part again. 2007 and 2009 led Wakui the Pacific League in wins. In 2008 he was named MVP of the Climax Series, the playoffs chosen, and then won with the Lions the league title in the Nihon Series, in which he the first ( Win) and fifth ( Loss ) opened the game. 2009 Seibu missed the playoffs though, Wakui was, however, who awarded for a strong performance this season ( 16-6 in 27 starts, ERA and 2.30, 4 shutouts ) won the Sawamura Eiji - Prize and also received the Golden Glove annually to the best fielder is ( equivalent to the Gold Glove major League ).

For the Japanese Baseball National Wakui took in 2008 at the Olympic Games in Beijing, 2009 at the second World Baseball Classic in part when he threw in the strong Japanese pitchers Yū Darvish, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hisashi Iwakuma only in 3 1/3 innings as a reliever, but a Win and Hold the tournament victory of Japan contributed.

Established in 2010, Wakui the third year in a row as kaimaku - Toshu ( " Opening Pitcher " ) the season for the Lions and led to the Seibu - rotation with 14 wins.