Shin Nakagomi

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Shin Nakagomi (中込 伸)

  • Bats Right, Throws Right
  • Height 6' 0", Weight 231 lb.

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Biographical Information[edit]

Shin Nakagomi pitched for 9 seasons in Nippon Pro Baseball and for four in the Chinese Professional Baseball League. He then went into coaching and managing.

Nakagomi was a first-round pick of the Hanshin Tigers in the 1988 NPB draft. He debuted in 1990, going 0-2 with a 8.74 ERA; in 11 1/3 innings, he allowed 19 hits (5 of them home runs). In 1991, he improved to 1-4, 4.29. The next year, Shin went 9-8 with a 2.42 ERA. He made the Central League All-Star team for the only time, and he completed 2 shutout innings with 2 Ks in the 1991 NPB All-Star Game 2. The young right-hander finished second in the league in ERA behind Koki Morita. Nakagomi faded to 8-13, 3.71 in 1993, and he ranked 3rd in losses (behind Shinji Sasaoka and Masumi Kuwata) and 4th in strikeouts (153, between Kuwata and Hiroki Nomura).

The Yamanashi native missed two years due to a right shoulder injury, and he returned to go 0-4, 6.61 in 1996. In 1997, the Yamanishi native was 7-7 with a 3.09 ERA as Hanshin's #2 starter. Nakagomi struggled in 1998 with a 8-13, 4.78 record, allowing 181 hits in 143 innings. He led the Central League in losses. In 1999, he went 2-7 with a 3.27 ERA. The next season, Nakagomi was 3-3 with 2 saves and a 4.62 ERA after being primarily to relief. In 2001, he concluded his Hanshin career with a 3-1, 4.08 record.

Nakagomi next pitched in Taiwan. In the 2002 season, he was 15-9 with a 3.26 ERA for the Brother Elephants. He placed 5th in the ERA behind Chao-Chi Sung, Jonathan Hurst, Hiroaki Nakayama and Osvaldo Martinez. He was one shy of the win co-leaders, Sung and Hurst. He completed the 2002 Taiwan Series Game 1, and he won the outstanding player award. In 2003, Shin went 13-8 with 3 saves and a 2.53 ERA, and he was 6th in ERA (between Hurst and Joe Davenport), 3rd in wins (tied with Nakayama and Wei-Lun Pan) and 4th in strikeouts (129, between Jeff Andra and Hurst). He again shined in the 2003 Taiwan Series, and he pitched 8 shutout innings to beat Andra in the 2003 Taiwan Series Game 1. He only allowed 2 runs in 6 innings in Game 5, and the Elephants beat the Sinon Bulls in 6 games.

In 2004, Nakagomi had a 14-6, 2.77 record won a CPBL Gold Glove for his defensive work. He led the league with 7 complete games, and he was 8th in the circuit in ERA (between Hurst and Chien-San Kao) and 3rd in wins (tied with Ying-Chieh Lin). In 2005, he fell to 3-6, 4.67 and gave up 124 hits in 98 1/3 IP and he left the team. Nakagomi became the pitching coach of the Brother Elephants in 2008. In May 2009, he was promoted to manager when the club started slowly under Kuang-Huei Wang. His team made the 2009 Taiwan Series, where they fell. Scandal hit the squad, though, which was involved in a game-fixing scandal. In July 2010, Nakagomi pled guilty to five charges of game-fixing.

Overall, Nakagomi had gone 41-62 with a 3.74 ERA in 182 games in NPB. In the CPBL, he had been 45-29 with a 3.16 ERA in 97 games.

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