Koji Uehara

  • ALCS MVP (2013 )

Koji Uehara (Japanese上原 浩 治, Koji Uehara, born April 3, 1975 in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese baseball player. He is throwing with the right pitcher, who stands since 2013 for the Boston Red Sox from the North American Major League Baseball under contract. Previously, he played from 1999 to 2008 for the Yomiuri Giants in the Japanese professional baseball, then Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers. With the national team he won the 2004 bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Athens and 2006, the gold medal at the World Baseball Classic.

Uehara, a graduate of the Osaka Taiiku Daigaku ( "Sport University Osaka " ), was drafted in the first round in 1998 by the Giants. In his first Profisasison 1999 he reached 20 wins, including 15 in successive operations. He was awarded both Shinjin'ō (Japanese Rookie of the Year ), the Central League as well as with the Sawamura - Eiji - shō (Eng. " Eiji Sawamura - Prize" ) for the best pitcher of the league for this service. In ten seasons until 2008 Uehara scored in 276 operations a total of 112 wins for the Giants. In 2002 he again won the Sawamura - Eiji - shō.

In January 2009, he agreed with the Baltimore Orioles on a two year contract. His first in the major leagues he had on April 8, 2009.

On December 6, 2012 Uehara signed a one -year contract with the Boston Red Sox.

In the American League Championship Series in 2013 Uehara was honored as Most Valuable Player. He was involved in five games in the series, where he managed a win and three saves.

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