Yuichi Matsumoto
| Yuichi Matsumoto | |
|---|---|
| Tokyo Yakult Swallows – No. 82 | |
| First baseman / Outfielder / Coach | |
| Born: December 18, 1980 São Paulo, Brazil | |
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |
| NPB debut | |
| May 30, 2002, for the Yakult Swallows | |
| Last NPB appearance | |
| October 4, 2015, for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows | |
| NPB statistics | |
| Batting average | .263 |
| Home runs | 11 |
| Runs batted in | 115 |
| Teams | |
| As player
As coach
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Daniel Yuichi Matsumoto (松元 ユウイチ, Matsumoto Yūichi; born December 18, 1980) is a Brazilian former professional baseball first baseman who played for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in Nippon Professional Baseball. He is the manager of the Brazil national baseball team.
He was born in São Paulo, in 1980. He signed with the Yakult Swallows in 1999. Though initially ineligible to be part of the first-squad roster due to the cap on foreign players, he gained Japanese citizenship in 2004 and played with the first team with increasing regularity.
Matsumoto represented the Brazil at the 1999 Pan American Games and at the 2002 Intercontinental Cup. At the 2013 World Baseball Classic, where Brazil qualified for the first time, he was named the team's captain.