is a former professional baseball

Baseball

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 pitcher

Pitcher

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 in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. In he was voted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame

Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame

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. He stood as a candidate of the House of Councillors election, 2010

Japanese House of Councillors election, 2010

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 for the LDP

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 but lost. Receiving 101,840 preference votes nationwide, he ranked 13th on the LDP list – the party received only twelve proportional seats – and is thus the top replacement candidate for a possible kuriage-tōsen, i.e. the first candidate to be elected without vote if an LDP proportional seat in the 2010 class of Councillors falls vacant.

Statistics

Year	No.	G	CG	SO	NoBB	W	L	S	W%	BF	IP	Hits	HR	BB	HBP	Ks	WP	Balks	R	ER	ERA
	21	33	14	7	1	16	2		.889	714	181.0	125	5	69	4	117	5	0	34	28	1.39
	18	23	13	2	0	12	2		.857	609	149.0	126	7	59	1	82	6	0	41	36	2.17
		40	12	3	0	17	10		.630	845	206.2	153	31	105	4	142	4	0	81	76	3.30
		41	12	4	0	14	13		.519	1004	236.2	211	21	107	6	160	6	1	94	82	3.11
		42	18	1	0	18	10		.643	1130	282.2	202	22	103	7	228	2	0	82	65	2.07
		40	14	3	0	14	8		.636	924	226.0	183	18	82	6	155	7	0	83	78	3.11
		48	26	4	1	26	9		.743	1282	312.0	292	34	95	3	203	3	0	110	101	2.91
		39	15	2	1	12	17		.414	953	221.0	238	28	70	6	113	1	1	117	111	4.52
		46	21	3	1	19	11	1	.633	1106	276.2	217	31	80	7	127	2	0	101	82	2.66
		38	8	2	1	10	18	0	.357	893	213.2	212	28	75	6	118	4	1	100	90	3.79
]		34	11	2	0	14	6	0	.700	763	177.1	173	23	71	4	82	2	0	84	78	3.97
		34	4	1	1	10	9	3	.526	657	151.1	163	20	53	5	86	3	0	81	77	4.59
		35	7	3	1	12	9	0	.571	829	201.0	190	22	59	3	113	1	0	86	79	3.54
		24	1	0	0	4	7	0	.364	400	86.1	111	16	35	2	59	1	0	68	64	6.70
		19	2	0	0	3	5	1	.375	319	75.0	78	12	22	1	58	0	0	43	36	4.32
		9	0	0	0	1	3	0	.250	92	22.0	27	3	1	0	11	1	0	16	11	4.50
		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	29	7.0	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	3	3.86
		11	0	0	0	1	0	1	1.000	79	19.2	16	2	9	1	9	0	0	9	9	4.12
Career		566	178	37	7	203	139	6	.594	12628	3045	2725	323	1095	66	1865	48	3	1235	1106	3.27

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