Takahiro Mahara
Takahiro Mahara | |
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Mahara with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | |
Pitcher | |
Born: (1981-12-08) December 8, 1981 (age 42) Kumamoto, Japan | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
NPB debut | |
March 30, 2004, for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks | |
Last appearance | |
May 1, 2015, for the Orix Buffaloes | |
NPB statistics (through 2015) | |
Win–loss record | 23-31 |
Earned Run Average | 2.83 |
Strikeouts | 455 |
Saves | 182 |
Teams | |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Takahiro Mahara (馬原 孝浩, Mahara Takahiro, born December 8, 1981 in Kumamoto, Kumamoto) is a right-handed pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played in the 2006 World Baseball Classic. Originally a starter, Mahara was converted to a closer partway through 2005 season and has been an efficient closer since then.
His best season was in 2007, when Mahara broke the team record for saves by recording 38 and also recording a 1.47 ERA. The previous record-holder was Rodney Pedraza, who had 35 saves in 2000. Mahara did not blow a save until late in the season, when Orix Buffaloes slugger Tuffy Rhodes cracked a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th at Skymark Stadium.
With the exception of the 2008 season when he missed half the season due to injury, Mahara has recorded at least 22 saves each year since 2005.
In 2011, he was in a slump and become losing pitcher in two games in Nippon Series. In 2012, he was injured and he didn't play any games. He was traded to Orix Buffaloes in the off season.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB.com
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- 1 Akinori Iwamura
- 2 Michihiro Ogasawara
- 3 Nobuhiko Matsunaka
- 5 Kazuhiro Wada
- 6 Hitoshi Tamura
- 7 Tsuyoshi Nishioka
- 8 Toshiaki Imae
- 9 Tatsuhiko Kinjō
- 10 Shinya Miyamoto
- 11 Naoyuki Shimizu
- 12 Soichi Fujita
- 15 Tomoyuki Kubota
- 17 Kosuke Fukudome
- 18 Daisuke Matsuzaka
- 19 Koji Uehara
- 20 Yasuhiko Yabuta
- 21 Tsuyoshi Wada
- 22 Tomoya Satozaki
- 23 Nori Aoki
- 24 Kyuji Fujikawa
- 25 Takahiro Arai
- 27 Motonobu Tanishige
- 31 Shunsuke Watanabe
- 40 Akinori Otsuka
- 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi
- 47 Toshiya Sugiuchi
- 51 Ichiro Suzuki
- 52 Munenori Kawasaki
- 59 Ryoji Aikawa
- 61 Hirotoshi Ishii
- 61 Takahiro Mahara
- Manager 89 Sadaharu Oh
- Coach 84 Kazuhiro Takeda
- Coach 85 Hatsuhiko Tsuji
- Coach 86 Yoshitaka Katori
- Coach 87 Yasunori Oshima
- Coach 88 Sumio Hirota
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