Tsuyoshi Nishioka
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Nishioka with the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2010 | |||||||||||||||
| Infielder | |||||||||||||||
| Born: July 27, 1984 Daitō, Osaka, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Switch Threw: Right-handed | |||||||||||||||
| Professional debut | |||||||||||||||
| NPB: June 23, 2003, for the Chiba Lotte Marines | |||||||||||||||
| MLB: April 1, 2011, for the Minnesota Twins | |||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | |||||||||||||||
| MLB: August 8, 2012, for the Minnesota Twins | |||||||||||||||
| NPB: September 17, 2018, for the Hanshin Tigers | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .288 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 61 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 383 | ||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .215 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 20 | ||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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Tsuyoshi Nishioka (西岡 剛, Nishioka Tsuyoshi; born July 27, 1984) is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines and Hanshin Tigers, as well as Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins.
Nishioka played in the 2006 World Baseball Classic as well as the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a member of the Japanese national team. In 2010, he became the fifth person to record 200 hits in a single NPB season.