*anese baseball player

Tetsuya Utsumi (内海 哲也, Utsumi Tetsuya, born April 29, 1982 in Kyoto, *an) is a *anese professional baseball player for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB). He previously played for the Yomiuri Giants.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 International career
• 3 Pitching style
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career

In 2000 NPB draft:, Orix BlueWave selected him with the first selection, but he did not sign, and he joined Tokyo Gas in the *anese industrial leagues from 2000 to 2003.

In 2003 NPB draft:, Yomiuri Giants selected him and joined.

On December 20, 2018, he was sent to Saitama Seibu Lions as the human compensation from the earlier transferred for Ginjiro Sumitani.

International career

He was selected *an national baseball team at the 2009 World Baseball Cl*ic and 2013 World Baseball Cl*ic.

And also, in a 2008 preseason exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox, Utsumi struck out 4 out of the 6 Red Sox batters he faced.

Pitching style

Utsumi is a "junkball" pitcher, meaning that he does not have overpowering pitches. His fastball is usually in the 140:km/h (87 MPH) range, and he complements it with a slurve, a changeup, and a forkball. Utsumi relies on his control to get batters out, and it is usually pretty good, but when Utsumi misses his spots, that is when trouble finds him, usually in the form of home runs.

References

External links

• Baseball portal
• *an portal

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