Masafumi Hirai

Orix Buffaloes – No. 72

Coach

Born: April 21, 1975

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

NPB debut

1994, for the Orix BlueWave

NPB statistics
(through 2014)

Win–loss record

63-43

ERA

3.31

Strikeouts

620

Teams

As player

As coach

Orix Buffaloes (2015–present)

Career highlights and awards

1× NPB All-Star (1995)
Pacific League Rookie of the Year (1995)
Comeback Player of the Year (2003)

Masafumi Hirai (平井正史, born April 21, 1975 in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher. Hirai has played for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball since 2003. He played with the Orix BlueWave from 1994 to 2002.

External links

Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)
NPB.com

Orix Buffaloes current roster

Active roster	3 Ryoichi Adachi 4 Brent Morel 7 Yoshio Itoi 8 Shunta Gotoh 10 Kohji Ohshiro 11 Takahiro Matsuba 14 Kazumasa Yoshida 15 Tatsuya Satoh 16 Yoshihisa Hirano 17 Sachiya Yamasaki 21 Yuki Nishi 23 Torai Fushimi 26 Daiki Tohmei 32 Brandon Dickson 35 Motoki Higa 37 Kenya Wakatsuki 38 Shūhei Kojima 39 Masahiro Nishino 40 Kohei Suzuki 44 Matt Clark 47 Tomoyuki Kaida 50 Yūya Oda 55 Takahiro Okada 57 Nobuyoshi Yamada 60 Ken Akama 61 Kyo Okunami 62 Katsuki Yamazaki 63 Issei Nakamura

Second squad	00 Satoshi Sonobe 1 Hiroyuki Nakajima 2 Takuya Hara 6 Yūma Mune 12 Kohdai Sano 13 Shunichi Satoh 18 Mamoru Kishida 19 Chihiro Kaneko 20 Daisuke Kondoh 22 Hikaru Ito 24 Yūki Miyazaki 25 Pat Misch 27 Daiki Aoyama 28 Satoshi Komatsu 29 Brian Bogusevic 30 Kyohei Iwasaki 31 Eiichi Koyano 33 Takuya Shimada 34 Masataka Yoshida 36 Ban Takagi 42 Tony Blanco 43 Seiichi Sakayori 45 Toshio Saitoh 46 Takayoshi Kawabata 48 Kohki Saitoh 49 Hirokazu Shiranita 52 Erik Cordier 53 Yūto Yoshida 54 Yūki Tsutsumi 56 Kengo Takeda 58 Ryuta Kadoya 59 Shohei Tsukahara 64 Shota Morimoto 65 Ryosuke Yagi 66 Ryo Yoshida 67 Sena Sato 68 Yu Suzuki 69 Satoshi Ohyama 91 Takayuki Tsukada 97 Daisuke Tanaka 98 Atori Ota 99 Yutaro Sugimoto 121 Kosuke Akamatsu (Trainee) 125 Ryo Toda (Trainee)

First squad coaching	Manager: 78 Junichi Fukura Head Coach: 77 Norifumi Nishimura Conditioning Coach: 79 Takahiro Akagawa Pitching Coaches: 71 Nobuyuki Hoshino, 89 Hiroshi Kobayashi Bullpen Coach: 90 Shusaku Beppu Battery Coach: 82 Fumihiro Suzuki Hitting Coaches: 88 Yoshihiko Takahashi, 85 Hirotoshi Kitagawa Fielding Coaches: 76 Naoyuki Kazaoka, 75 Manabu Satake

Second squad coaching	Manager 81 So Taguchi Hitting Coaches: 74 Shinji Shitayama, 79 Ryutaro Tsuji Pitching Coaches: 72 Masafumi Hirai, 73 Atsushi Yoshida Fielding Coaches: 86 Makoto Shiosaki. 84 Daisuke Hayakawa Battery Coach: 87 Daisuke Maeda Development Coaches: 80 Tsutomu Sakai, 70 Takashi Miwa

Pacific League Rookie of the Year Award

1950: Aramaki
1951: Kageyama
1952: Nakanishi
1953: Toyoda
1954: Takuwa
1955: Enomoto
1956: Inao
1957: Kimura
1958: Sugiura
1959: Harimoto
1960: None
1961: Tokuhisa
1962: Ozaki
1963: None
1964: None
1965: Ikenaga
1966: None
1967: Y. Takahashi
1968: None
1969: Arito
1970: M. Sato
1971: Minagawa
1972: Kato
1973: Niimi
1974: Mitsui
1975: Yamaguchi
1976: M. Fujita
1977: Y. Sato
1978: Murakami
1979: Matsunuma
1980: Kida
1981: Ishige
1982: Oishi
1983: Futamura
1984: H. Fujita
1985: Kumano
1986: Kiyohara
1987: Awano
1988: Moriyama
1989: Sakai
1990: Nomo
1991: Hasegawa
1992: Takamura
1993: Sugiyama
1994: Watanabe
1995: Hirai
1996: Kaneko
1997: Kosaka
1998: Ozeki
1999: Matsuzaka
2000: None
2001: Okubo
2002: Shoda
2003: Wada
2004: Mise
2005: Kubo
2006: Yagi
2007: Tanaka
2008: Komatsu
2009: Settsu
2010: Sakakibara
2011: Makita
2012: Masuda
2013: Norimoto
2014: Ishikawa
2015: Arihara

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