Last Saturday Yohei Ohshima of the Chunichi Dragons became the latest member of the 2000 hit club in Japan. Ohshima attended college at Komazawa University and spent several years playing for Nippon Life in the corporate leagues before being taken by Chunichi in the fifth round of the 2009 draft. He pretty much became a regular right away and has been a steady if unspectacular contributor for the Dragons ever since. He's a five time All Star, a nine time Golden Glove award winner and a one time Best 9 award winner. He led the Central League in steals in 2012 and hits in 2019 and 2020. He's been with the Dragons long enough that he's actually played in a couple Nippon Series for them - 2010 and 2011 - I think Nobumasa Fukuda is the only other player on the Dragons who appeared in either Series.
Here's a handful of his cards over the years:
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| 2010 BBM Rookie Edition #014 |
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| 2010 BBM 1st Version #070 |
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| 2011 BBM Tohto 80th Memorial #51 |
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| 2012 BBM 1st Version #394 |
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| 2012 BBM All Stars #A67 |
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| 2013 BBM 1st Version #368 |
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| 2016 Calbee #064 |
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| 2017 BBM 1st Version #317 |
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| 2019 BBM 1st Version #290 |
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| 2021 Epoch NPB #315 |
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| 2022 Bowman NPB #43 |
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| 2023 BBM 1st Version #314 |
2 comments:
I’ve been watching his countdown to 2000 all year, it was nice to see him finally collect it.
In typical 2023 Dragons fashion, the team left him stranded and got shut out by the Baystars in that game. What a miserable team….
Yeah, the 2023 Dragons highlight video will mostly be this along with Usami's walkoffs
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