*anese baseball player

Seiichi Uchikawa (内川 聖一, Uchikawa Seiichi, born August 4, 1982) is a *anese professional baseball player for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama BayStars and *uoka SoftBank Hawks.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 Yokohama BayStars
  • 1.2 *uoka SoftBank Hawks
  • 1.3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows
• 2 International career
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Yokohama BayStars

Yokohama BayStars selected Uchikawa with the first selection in the 2000 NPB draft:.

On March 30, 2001, Uchikawa made his NPB debut.

He rose to prominence in 2008 with a league-leading .378 batting average.

*uoka SoftBank Hawks

During the 2010 offseason, he exercised his free agent option and after weeks of negotiations between the Yokohama BayStars, Hiroshima Toyo Carp, and *uoka SoftBank Hawks, he decided to sign a four-year deal with SoftBank worth up to 1.36 billion yen.

On December 2, 2020, he became a free agent.

Tokyo Yakult Swallows

On December 11, 2020, Uchikawa signed with Tokyo Yakult Swallows of NPB and held press conference.

International career

He was selected for the *anese national baseball team in the 2009 World Baseball Cl*ic, 2013 World Baseball Cl*ic and 2017 World Baseball Cl*ic.

References

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)