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Koji Uehara

1975 - Today

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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 553,228 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Koji Uehara is the 52nd most popular baseball player (down from 48th in 2019), the 2,032nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,787th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Japanese Baseball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 550k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Koji Ueharas by language

Over the past year Koji Uehara has had the most page views in the with 595,948 views, followed by English (40,437), and Chinese (11,801). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malay (244.12%), Esperanto (89.68%), and Korean (58.27%)

Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Koji Uehara ranks 52 out of 91. Before him are Greg Maddux, David Ortiz, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hyun-jin Ryu, Pedro Martínez, and Miguel Cabrera. After him are Cal Ripken Jr., Mike Trout, Robinson Canó, Justin Verlander, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Mookie Betts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Koji Uehara ranks 433. Before him are Isolde Kostner, Junko Minagawa, Richard Morales, Renate Götschl, Tina Kandelaki, and Drew Goddard. After him are Gerardo Bedoya, Gláucio de Jesus Carvalho, Erlend Øye, Laurent Robert, Adam Nelson, and Ezequiel Mosquera.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Koji Uehara ranks 2,032 out of 6,245. Before him are Ao Tanaka (1998), Junko Iwao (1970), Teruyoshi Ito (1974), Miyuki Yanagita (1981), Inesu Emiko Takeoka (1971), and Shoichi Funaki (1968). After him are Yoshihiro Natsuka (1969), Masataka Imai (1959), Eri Fukatsu (1973), Hitoshi Sakimoto (1969), Sayaka Kanda (1986), and Shinzo Koroki (1986).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among baseball players born in Japan, Koji Uehara ranks 8. Before him are Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Hideo Nomo (1968), Shohei Ohtani (1994), Hideki Matsui (1974), Yu Darvish (1986), and Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980). After him are Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1998), and Kenta Maeda (1988).

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