Kazuki Yoshimi

• Toyota JIDOSHA
• Chunichi Dragons (since 2005)

Kazuki Yoshimi (吉 见 一起Japanese, Kazuki Yoshimi; born September 19, 1984 in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture) is a Japanese baseball player on the position of the pitcher. The right hand plays since his pro debut in 2005 for the Chunichi Dragons of the Japanese Central League.

Yoshimi began in elementary school with the baseball, with the Konko - Osaka High School in Takatsuki 2002 he took part in the Spring Koshien, but where his team was eliminated in the first round. After graduating, he worked for Toyota JIDOSHA, where he played as shakaijin in the factory team. When Draft 2005, he came over the Kibo nyūdan waku seido, could be taken before the actual draft under contract by the player until 2006, to the Chunichi Dragons.

Yoshimi made ​​his debut in the first team of the Dragons in September 2006. Initially provided for the rotation in 2007, he was transferred to the second team after poor performances again and then played for the Estrellas Orientales in the 2007/ 08 season the league Dominicana de Béisbol Invernal. Yoshimi 2008 belonged from the beginning of the season for the first team squad and showed good performance: In early April, he threw in his first game Complete a 4 -hit shutout against Yakult. Overall, he came in 2008 to 35 operations, including 14 starts, in which he achieved from 3.23 Win -loss record of 10-3 with an ERA.

Since 2009 Yoshimi is a regular rotation of the Dragons, the same year he led with 16 wins along with Shohei Tateyama the Central League game. After the season, he signed a contract extension in which his salary was increased from 50 to 92 million yen. In 2010 he opened the season for Chunichi, tossed with an ERA 3.50, although weaker than in the previous year, but added with a winning record ( 12-9 ) in the league title the team.