Tsuyoshi Wada

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Tsuyoshi Wada (Japanese和田 毅, Tsuyoshi Wada, born February 21, 1981 in Kōnan, Aichi Prefecture) is a Japanese baseball player. The left-handed pitcher plays since his pro debut in 2003 for the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in the Japanese Pacific League. With the Japanese national team he won the 2006 first World Baseball Classic, at the 2004 Summer Olympics bronze medal.

Wada grew from his eleventh year in the home of his father in Izumo in Shimane prefecture and attended the prefecture operated Hamada High School. In its second year, the team qualified for the Summer Koshien, but retired in the first round against the Handelsoberschule Akita by Sayonara Oshidashi, a walk-off walk, from Wada. In the summer Koshien in his senior year in 1998 Hamada High School reached the quarter-finals and defeated him there until the extension. After graduating Wada attended Waseda University and played in the League of Six universities of Tokyo, where in 2002 he renewed a 25- year-old record for strikeouts.

In the Draft 2002 Wada came over the Jiyu kakutoku waku seido (自由 获得 枠 制度), in which players could be taken before the actual draft under contract until 2006, Fukuoka Daiei Hawks to the under manager Sadaharu Oh. From the beginning he was used there as a starter and was awarded for its good performance in the first year ( 14-5, 3:38 ) 2003 shinjin'ō, as rookie of the year, the Pacific League. Despite then temporarily weaker performances since he is a regular rotation of the Hawks, in 2005 and again in 2009 he opened a kaimaku - Toshu ( " opening pitcher ," usually the best starters in a team) the season for the Lions. 2003, 2004 and again in 2010 he took part in the All -Star Game. From an elbow surgery in 2007, he quickly recovered; In 2009 he had to go to an inflammation of the elbow in treatment and played his worst ever season. In the same year he was also dropped from the national squad for the second World Baseball Classic short term. 2010, when the Hawks graduating the first time since 2003, the Pacific League first, Wada threw with an ERA 3.14 one of his best seasons and led together with Chihiro Kaneko of the league with 17 wins. For the season performance Wada was named MVP of the Pacific League.

Wada is married to the model Kasumi Nakane since 2005.