Hideaki Wakui

Hideaki Wakui
Wakui with the Chunichi Dragons in 2023
Chunichi Dragons – No. 20
Starting pitcher
Born: (1986-06-21) June 21, 1986 (age 38)
Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
NPB debut
March 29, 2005, for the Seibu Lions
NPB statistics
(through 2023 season)
Win–loss record159-156
Earned run average3.59
Strikeouts1,998
Holds16
Saves37
Teams
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Representing  Japan
Men's Baseball
World Baseball Classic
Gold medal – first place 2009 Los Angeles Team
Asian Baseball Championship
Gold medal – first place 2007 Taichung Team

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.[1][2]

His wife is a Japanese model Moe Oshikiri.