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Yoshinobu Yamamoto

1998 - Today

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto (山本 由伸, Yamamoto Yoshinobu; born August 17, 1998) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Orix Buffaloes, where he became one of the most decorated pitchers in league history. Between 2021 and 2023, Yamamoto won three consecutive Pacific League Most Valuable Player Awards, three Eiji Sawamura Awards, and three Triple Crowns, leading the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average in each of those seasons. He also threw two no-hitters and was a key figure in Orix's 2022 Japan Series championship. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 79th most popular baseball player (down from 59th in 2024), the 3,373rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,269th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Baseball Player.

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Yoshinobu Yamamoto ranks 79 out of 91. Before him are Kenta Maeda, Manny Machado, Max Scherzer, Paul Goldschmidt, Trevor Bauer, and Barry Larkin. After him are Kirby Puckett, Giancarlo Stanton, Jacob deGrom, Pedro Luis Lazo, Tim Lincecum, and José Altuve.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1998, Yoshinobu Yamamoto ranks 182. Before him are Marco Arop, Jacob Bruun Larsen, Cavetown, Steve Lacy, Soojin, and Ariel Winter. After him are Pedro Gonçalves, Amandla Stenberg, Trae Young, Dennis Man, Stephy Mavididi, and Andrei Rațiu.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yoshinobu Yamamoto ranks 3,380 out of 6,245. Before him are Sotaro Yasunaga (1976), Makoto Furukawa (1989), Jungo Fujimoto (1984), Yuki Furukawa (1987), Hideki Yoshioka (1972), and Yasuhiko Niimura (1970). After him are Ryuji Kato (1969), Ayumi Kaihori (1986), Junji Sato (1975), Mutsumi Tamura (1987), Yohei Toyoda (1985), and Miki Sugawara (1950).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In Japan

Among baseball players born in Japan, Yoshinobu Yamamoto ranks 12. Before him are Yu Darvish (1986), Daisuke Matsuzaka (1980), Koji Uehara (1975), Masahiro Tanaka (1988), Hiroki Kuroda (1975), and Kenta Maeda (1988). After him are Jung-hoo Lee (1998).

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