Tomoaki Egawa

Tomoaki Egawa (江川 智晃)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 9", Weight 174 lb.

• High School Ujiyamada Commercial High School

• Born October 31, 1986 in Ise, Mie Japan

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Biographical Information

Tomoaki Egawa had played in the Nippon Pro Baseball for 10 years.

Egawa was drafted by the Daiei Hawks in the first round of the 2004 NPB draft. He crushed 6 homers in the NPB Farm Leagues in 2005, then he went 8-for-42 with the big club in 2006. Egawa mainly stayed in the minors in the next 5 seasons, and he only got 85 at-bats for the top team combined. He led the Western League with 14 homers in 2010 (two ahead of Yusuke Kosai and Kenta Nakanishi), and he was 2nd in homers in 2009 (14, 7 behind Takahiro Okada) and 2011 (10, 3 behind future MVP Yuki Yanagita). Egawa crushed 4 homers with a .244/.275/.388 batting line in 2012, and he blasted a career-high 12 homers in only 227 at-bats with a .260/.352/.445 batting line in 2013. He was stuck behind Seiichi Uchikawa in left and Akira Nakamura in right. The Ise native went 7-for-31 in 2014, then he was 7-for-34 in 2015. He played 42 games in 2016, and his batting line was .228/.343/.386. However, Egawa slumped to .179/.214/.269 in [[2017 and was 0 for 2 when they won the 2017 Japan Series, and he only got 20 at-bats combined in the major league before he announced his retirement in 2019.

Overall, Egawa hit .235/.300/.390 with 183 hits and 26 homers in 14 seasons in the NPB.

Sources

• Wikipedia Japan