Eri Yoshida | |
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Japan Islanders | |
Pitcher | |
Born: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | January 17, 1992|
Bats: Right Throws: Right |
Eri Yoshida (吉田 えり, Yoshida Eri, born January 17, 1992) is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Japan Islanders of the Empire Professional Baseball League. She plays as a sidearm knuckleball pitcher. In 2008, at the age of 16, she became the first woman drafted by a Japanese men's professional baseball team.[1]