Win-Loss 40-18 Role Baseball player Salary 290 million JPY (2013) Name Tadashi Settsu Career start 2009 | Strikeouts 494 Weight 92 kg Earned run average 2.20 Height 1.81 m | |
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Current team Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (#50 / Pitcher) Similar People Seiichi Uchikawa, Kimiyasu Kudoh, Kenji Ohtonari, Nobuhiro Matsuda, Daisuke Matsuzaka Profiles | ||
Tadashi settsu fukuoka softbank hawks
Tadashi Settsu (攝津 正, Settsu Tadashi, born 1 June 1982 in Akita, Akita) is a Japanese baseball player. He has been with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks since 2009, and plays as pitcher, wearing number 50. In 2009, he was voted Most Valuable Rookie. The next year, he became the first pitcher ever to make 70 or more appearances in his first two seasons in the league.
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Tadashi settsu
International Career
Tadashi Settsu was one of the top performers in the 2007 Baseball World Cup. It was the international debut for the right-hander, who pitched for JR East in the industrial leagues. He went 4-0 with a 0.31 ERA. In 28 1/3 innings, he allowed just 11 hits and one run while fanning 36. Settsu beat the South African national team in his first game on November 7; in the first inning, he gave up his lone score of the event. On November 11, he tossed 8 shutout innings, allowing 3 hits, in a win over Panama, the Bronze Medal winner in 2005. Along with Hasebe Kohhei, he shut out Travis Blackley and Australia in the quarterfinals. He came back on one day rest on November 18 and allowed one hit and no runs in 7 innings against the Dutch national team to win the Bronze Medal Game. He led the Cup in wins (no one else had more than 2), had the second-lowest ERA of anyone to work 10+ innings (behind Kenny Berkenbosch's 0.00) and led in strikeouts (15 more than En-Yu Lin). He was far more dominant than any of the 15+ pitchers who had played or would play in the major leagues. Settsu was the clear choice as the top right-handed pitcher in the event, though he failed to take home Baseball World Cup MVP honors; those went to Jayson Nix.
NPB Career
In 2008, Settsu was a fifth-round draft pick of the SoftBank Hawks. He debuted on April 5, 2009 with 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of Toshiya Sugiuchi. He had a great rookie year in 2009, going 5-2 with a 1.47 ERA in a Pacific League-high 70 appearances. Tadashi fanned 102 in 79 2/3 IP and allowed only 51 hits (3 home runs). He was named the PL Rookie of the Year.
He won the 2012 Sawamura Award with a record of 17-5 and a 1.91 ERA, with 153 strikeouts in 193 and 1/3 innings, and 3 complete games with 2 shutouts.
Settsu is a 5 ft 11 in, 200 lb right-handed pitcher. With an overhand delivery he throws a fastball that usually sits in 86-88 mph (tops out at 92 mph), curveball, slider, and a solid-average screwball around 80 mph. He also has decent command, posting a walks per nine innings rate of 2.38 in his career (until 2012 season).