Hideaki Wakui
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Wakui with the Chunichi Dragons in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chunichi Dragons – No. 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Starting pitcher | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: June 21, 1986 Matsudo, Chiba, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
| March 29, 2005, for the Seibu Lions | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through 2024 season) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Win–loss record | 162-161 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Earned run average | 3.57 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strikeouts | 2,044 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Holds | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Saves | 37 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hideaki Wakui (涌井 秀章, Wakui Hideaki, born June 21, 1986) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Seibu Lions / Saitama Seibu Lions, Chiba Lotte Marines and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Wakui pitched for the Japanese national team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2009 World Baseball Classic.
His wife is a Japanese model Moe Oshikiri.