Shuichi Murata
| Shuichi Murata | |||||||||||||||
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Murata with the Yomiuri Giants | |||||||||||||||
| Yokohama DeNA BayStars – No. 71 | |||||||||||||||
| Third baseman / Coach | |||||||||||||||
| Born: December 28, 1980 Sasaguri, Fukuoka, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
| March 28, 2003, for the Yokohama BayStars | |||||||||||||||
| Last NPB appearance | |||||||||||||||
| October 1, 2017, for the Yomiuri Giants | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .269 | ||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1,865 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 360 | ||||||||||||||
| RBI | 1,123 | ||||||||||||||
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| Last updated on: November 9, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
Shuichi Murata (村田 修一, Murata Shūichi; born December 28, 1980) is a Japanese former professional baseball third baseman. He played 15 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) from 2003 to 2017 for the Yokohama BayStars and Yomiuri Giants.
Murata led the Central League in home runs in both 2007 and 2008 and is one of the few pure home run hitters in Japanese professional baseball today. He played in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team and hit cleanup for much of the latter tournament.