1975 - Today
Koji Uehara (上原 浩治, Uehara Kōji, [ɯehara koːdʑi]; born April 3, 1975) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), as well as the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). A right-handed pitcher, Uehara has an MLB career strikeout rate of 10.7 K/9 innings and a walk rate of 1.5 BB/9 innings through the 2017 season. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Koji Uehara has received more than 555,900 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Koji Uehara is the 48th most popular baseball player (down from 47th in 2019), the 1,791st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,663rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Baseball Player.
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Among baseball players, Koji Uehara ranks 48 out of 74. Before him are Ken Griffey Jr., Albert Pujols, Miguel Cabrera, David Ortiz, Shohei Ohtani, and Cal Ripken Jr.. After him are Yu Darvish, Curt Schilling, Justin Verlander, Robinson Canó, Mike Trout, and Hyun-jin Ryu.
1969 - Present
HPI: 39.62
Rank: 42
1980 - Present
HPI: 39.53
Rank: 43
1983 - Present
HPI: 39.48
Rank: 44
1975 - Present
HPI: 39.00
Rank: 45
1994 - Present
HPI: 38.62
Rank: 46
1960 - Present
HPI: 37.80
Rank: 47
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.13
Rank: 48
1986 - Present
HPI: 36.76
Rank: 49
1966 - Present
HPI: 35.94
Rank: 50
1983 - Present
HPI: 35.58
Rank: 51
1982 - Present
HPI: 35.57
Rank: 52
1991 - Present
HPI: 34.42
Rank: 53
1987 - Present
HPI: 34.10
Rank: 54
Among people born in 1975, Koji Uehara ranks 381. Before him are Gentleman, Kurt Asle Arvesen, Květa Peschke, Sultan Ibragimov, Jussi Jääskeläinen, and Wopke Hoekstra. After him are Ana Paula Arósio, Andrés Scotti, Dustin Lance Black, Boris Živković, Lisa Miskovsky, and Zhang Ning.
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.24
Rank: 375
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.22
Rank: 376
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.21
Rank: 377
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.18
Rank: 378
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.16
Rank: 379
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.13
Rank: 380
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.13
Rank: 381
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.10
Rank: 382
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.05
Rank: 383
1975 - Present
HPI: 36.97
Rank: 384
1975 - Present
HPI: 36.90
Rank: 385
1975 - Present
HPI: 36.89
Rank: 386
1975 - Present
HPI: 36.89
Rank: 387
Among people born in Japan, Koji Uehara ranks 1,791 out of 6,048. Before him are Tomomi Kahara (1974), Toshiya Fujita (1971), Megumi Igarashi (1972), Masanao Sasaki (1962), Kazuya Kamenashi (1986), and No Min-woo (1986). After him are Saki Kumagai (1990), Katsuo Kanda (1966), Mai Nakahara (1981), Saki Fujita (1984), Kaori Icho (1984), and Norio Omura (1969).
1974 - Present
HPI: 37.24
Rank: 1,785
1971 - Present
HPI: 37.24
Rank: 1,786
1972 - Present
HPI: 37.22
Rank: 1,787
1962 - Present
HPI: 37.22
Rank: 1,788
1986 - Present
HPI: 37.21
Rank: 1,789
1986 - Present
HPI: 37.13
Rank: 1,790
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.13
Rank: 1,791
1990 - Present
HPI: 37.12
Rank: 1,792
1966 - Present
HPI: 37.11
Rank: 1,793
1981 - Present
HPI: 37.07
Rank: 1,794
1984 - Present
HPI: 37.06
Rank: 1,795
1984 - Present
HPI: 37.06
Rank: 1,796
1969 - Present
HPI: 37.04
Rank: 1,797
Among baseball players born in Japan, Koji Uehara ranks 5. Before him are Sadaharu Oh (1940), Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), and Shohei Ohtani (1994). After him are Yu Darvish (1986).
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 1
1973 - Present
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 2
1980 - Present
HPI: 39.91
Rank: 3
1994 - Present
HPI: 38.62
Rank: 4
1975 - Present
HPI: 37.13
Rank: 5
1986 - Present
HPI: 36.76
Rank: 6