Naoyuki Uwasawa

Uwasawa's career path is the kind that starts arguments. He came out of Matsudo in Chiba, anchored the rotation for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, pitched for the Boston Red Sox, then returned to Japan with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks rather than the club that developed him. I understand why the ordering bothered people. From outside Japan it helps to know that the route abroad is not handed out; you earn it by taking the ball, season after season, and he earned it. A 187 cm pitcher whose value was never one unhittable trick, it was showing up. Careers get judged on narrative in the short run and on results in the long run. He put himself somewhere only the second one can save him, which takes nerve.

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Name (English)

Naoyuki Uwasawa

Name (Japanese)

上沢直之

Reading

うわさわ なおゆき

Born

February 6, 1994 (age 32)

Origin

Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Height

187 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoyuki%20Uwasawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E6%B2%A2%E7%9B%B4%E4%B9%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11359505

Tags

• Chiba Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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