Win-Loss 42-37 Role Baseball player ERA 3.25 Height 1.86 m | Strikeouts 602 Spouse Satoko Utsumi (m. 2007) Name Tetsuya Utsumi Salary 400 million JPY (2013) | |
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Current team Yomiuri Giants (#26 / Pitcher) Children Eita Utsumi, Sota Utsumi, Ota Utsumi Similar People Hayato Sakamoto, Tetsuya Yamaguchi, Toshiya Sugiuchi, Hisayoshi Chono, Shinnosuke Abe | ||
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Tetsuya Utsumi (内海 哲也, Utsumi Tetsuya, born April 29, 1982 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player in Japan's Central League. A left-handed pitcher, Utsumi is one of the better starters in the Yomiuri rotation. In a 2008 preseason exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox, Utsumi struck out 4 out of the 6 Red Sox batters he faced. He had worked for Tokyo Gas from 2000 to 2003.
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Pitching style
Utsumi is a "junkball" pitcher, meaning that he does not have overpowering pitches. His fastball is usually in the 140 km/h (87 MPH) range, and he complements it with a slurve, a changeup, and a forkball. Utsumi relies on his control to get batters out, and it is usually pretty good, but when Utsumi misses his spots, that is when trouble finds him, usually in the form of home runs.