Saturday, July 24, 2021

2021 Japanese Olympic Baseball Team

We're about three days out from the start of the Olympic baseball competition and I thought it was time to finally do a post for the Samurai Japan team.  This is the eighth Olympics that Japan has played baseball in - they are the only team to play in every Olympics that baseball has been included in the official program.  They've medaled in five of the Olympiads, winning Gold in 1984, Silver in 1988 and 1996 and Bronze in 1992 and 2004 (although the 1984 and 1988 "medals" aren't official since baseball was a demonstration sport in those Games).

I've arranged the cards of the players the way a typical Japanese team roster is ordered - first the pitchers are listed, then the catchers, followed by the infielders and finally the outfielders.  Each group of players is ordered by uniform number.  I'm using the roster on this Japanese Wikipedia page as my source for this including the uniform numbers. 

#12 - Koyo Aoyagi

2017 Epoch Tigers #15 (1 star variant)
#13 - Suguru Iwazaki

2020 BBM Tigers #T33
#15 - Masato Morishita

2020 Epoch Carp Rookies & Stars #04
#16 - Hiromi Itoh

2021 Epoch NPB #175
#17 - Yoshinobu Yamamoto

2019 Calbee Samurai Japan #SJ-19
18 - Masahiro Tanaka

2009 Konami WBC Heroes #W09R087
19 - Yasuaki Yamasaki

2018 TIC Baystars #04
#20 - Ryoji Kuribayashi

2021 BBM 1st Version #292
#21 - Kodai Senga

2019 Calbee Samurai Japan Limited Box Set #M-4

#22 - Yudai Ohno
2020 BBM 1st Version #275
#61 - Kaima Taira

2017 Epoch Lions Rookies & Stars #34
#7 - Ryutaro Umeno

2020 BBM 2nd Version #498
#10 - Takuya Kai

2018 BBM Hawks 80th Anniversary #65
#1 - Tetsuto Yamada

2017 Bowman "Paper Prospects" #BP56
#2 - Sosuke Genda

2017 BBM 1st Version #105
#3 - Hideto Asamura

2020 Calbee Samurai Japan #19

#4 - Ryosuke Kikuchi

2017 Topps Now WBC Team Japan #JPN-8

#6 - Hayato Sakamoto

2019 Epoch One #148

#55 - Munetaka Murakami

2020 Calbee "The Record" #TR-2

#8 - Kensuke Kondoh

2020 Calbee Samurai Japan #SJ-08

#9 - Yuki Yanagita

2017 BBM 2nd Version #408 (Secret Version)

#31 - Ryoya Kurihara

2015 BBM 1st Version #024
#34 - Masataka Yoshida

2019 Orix Team Set #34

#51 - Seiya Suzuki

2019 BBM Fusion #29


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