Batting average .267 Role Baseball outfielder Children Rukiya Hirata Name Ryosuke Hirata Salary 29 million JPY (2013) | RBI 264 Weight 88 kg Home runs 64 Height 1.77 m | |
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Current team Chunichi Dragons (#40 / Outfielder) Similar People Yudai Ono, Sho Nakata, Masahiko Morino, Yohei Oshima, Yoshitomo Tsutsugo | ||
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Ryosuke Hirata (平田 良介, born March 23, 1988 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He has played for the Dragons since 2006.
Hirata attended Osaka Tōin High School and was a member of the team that advanced to the semi-finals of the 2005 national championships. and tied Kazuhiro Kiyohara's record of 5 home runs at the tournament. He hit a total of 70 home runs during his three years of high school. He was drafted by the Dragons in the first round of the 2005 rookie draft.
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