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Seven Japanese players will play in the 2023 MLB season, three of them will play for the first time in the 2023 season, while the most experienced active Japanese player in the MLB is Yu Darvish, he debuted in 2012.
Players from Japan that are currently on Major League Baseball Rosters | |||||
Player | Position | MLB Debut | Games* | Team(s) | Status |
Yu Darvish* | SP | April 9, 2012 | 242 | Texas Rangers (2012-2017) | Active |
Kenta Maeda* | SP | April 6, 2016 | 181 | Los Angeles Dodgers (2016-2019) | Active |
Shohei Ohtani* | TWP | March 29, 2018 | 581 | Los Angeles Angels (2018-) | Active |
Yusei Kikuchi* | RP | March 21, 2019 | 102 | Seattle Mariners (2019-2021) | Active |
Seiya Suzuki* | RF | April 7, 2022 | 111 | Chicago Cubs (2022-) | Active |
Masataka Yoshida* | OF | - | - | Boston Red Sox (2023-) | Active |
Kodai Senga | P | - | - | New York Mets (2023-) | Active |
Shintaro Fujinami* | P | - | - | Oakland Athletics (2023-) | Active |
Ichiro Suzuki is one of the most remembered Japanese in the MLB, he played a total of 2,653 games from 2001 to 2019, setting a record almost impossible to break until now. Historically most of the Japanese players in the MLB were pitchers.
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