Takeya Nakamura

Nakamura with the Saitama Seibu Lions

Saitama Seibu Lions – No. 60

First baseman

Born: August 15, 1983
Daitō, Osaka, Japan

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

debut

September 28, 2003, for the Seibu Lions

Career statistics
(through 2015)

Batting average

.257

Home runs

309

Runs batted in

829

Teams

Seibu Lions / Saitama Seibu Lions (2002–present)

Career highlights and awards

7× NPB All-Star
6x Pacific League home run champion
1× Japan Series champion (2008)

Medal record

Men's baseball
Representing Japan
2015 WBSC Premier12
	2015 Tokyo	Team

Takeya Nakamura (中村剛也, Nakamura Takeya) (born August 15, 1983, in Daitō, Osaka) is Japanese baseball player. He is an infielder for the Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Nicknamed "Okawari-kun (おかわり君)" for his large frame, Nakamura is one of Japan's premier power hitters. Playing his first full season in 2008, Nakamura belted a league-high 46 home runs and drove in 101 runs despite a .244 average. He raised his average to .285 in the 2009 season and set a career high with 48 home runs to lead the league for the second straight year. He also increased his RBI output to 122 in just 128 games. After playing only 85 games in 2010 (still managing 25 home runs), Nakamura played all 144 games in 2011 and tied his own career high with 48 home runs.

After a slight decline in production (due in part to missed time) from 2012 to 2014, Nakamura had another extremely productive season in 2015 with 37 home runs and a career-high 124 RBI, both of which led the Pacific League. He set a career high in hits (145) and his .278 average and 35 doubles were his best since 2009.

By the end of 2015 at age 31, Nakamura has recorded more than 300 career home runs and 500 extra-base hits.

Career statistics

Nippon Professional Baseball
Year	Age	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	RBI	SB	AVG
2003	19	Seibu	4	12	0	2	1	0	0	3	2	1	.167
2004	20	Seibu	28	33	8	9	1	0	2	16	5	0	.273
2005	21	Seibu	80	237	40	62	13	1	22	143	57	0	.262
2006	22	Seibu	100	283	47	78	16	0	9	121	29	4	.276
2007	23	Seibu	98	226	29	52	16	0	7	89	32	2	.230
2008	24	Seibu	143	524	90	128	24	4	46	298	101	2	.244
2009	25	Seibu	128	501	91	143	37	1	48	326	126	3	.285
2010	26	Seibu	85	304	50	71	14	2	25	164	57	1	.234
2011	27	Seibu	144	525	97	141	30	0	48	315	116	4	.269
2012	28	Seibu	123	432	54	100	16	1	27	199	79	2	.231
2013	29	Seibu	26	96	8	20	2	0	4	34	15	0	.208
2014	30	Seibu	111	382	68	98	19	1	34	229	90	0	.257
2015	31	Seibu	139	521	82	145	35	0	37	291	124	1	.278
Career			1070	3555	582	904	189	10	272	1937	705	19	.254

Statistics current as of February 14, 2016. Bold denotes league leader.

External links

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com

Saitama Seibu Lions current roster

First squad	00 Daichi Mizuguchi 0 Shogo Kimura 1 Takumi Kuriyama 2 Yuji Kaneko 5 Yuji Onizaki 6 Naotaka Takehara 8 Naoto Watanabe 10 Tomoya Mori 11 Takayuki Kishi 12 Kuo Chun-lin 14 Tatsushi Masuda 16 Yusei Kikuchi 17 Kona Takahashi 20 Ryoma Nogami 25 Takanori Hoshi 27 Ginjiro Sumitani 28 Ryohei Fujiwara 29 Hirotaka Koishi 30 Yosuke Okamoto 32 Hideto Asamura 33 Hotaka Yamakawa 34 Yasuo Sano 35 Kazuhisa Makita 37 Masatoshi Okada 41 Makoto Aiuchi 42 Esmerling Vásquez 43 Tomomi Takahashi 44 Shuta Tonosaki 47 Andy Van Hekken 48 Shota Takekuma 51 Fumikazu Kimura 54 C. C. Lee 55 Shogo Akiyama 59 Kyohei Nagae 60 Takeya Nakamura 61 Shotaro Tashiro 62 Hitoto Komazuki 63 Isamu Sato 65 Shogo Saitoh 88 Ryo Sakata 99 Ernesto Mejía

Second squad	9 Yutaro Ohsaki 15 Tatsuya Oishi 19 Takuya Toyoda 21 Ken Togame 22 Atsushi Okamoto 23 Shogo Noda 26 Seiji Kawagoe 31 Toshihiro Iwao 36 Tadasuke Minamikawa 38 Yusuke Tamamura 39 Nien Ting Wu 40 Takayuki Yamaguchi 45 Keisuke Honda 46 Yuta Nakazaki 49 Tatsuyuki Uemoto 50 Kentaro Fukukura 52 Haruka Yamada 53 Aito Otaki 56 Kazuki Kaneko 57 Tsubasa Kokuba 58 Masato Kumashiro 64 Shota Nakata 66 Naoaki Matsumoto 67 Koki Fujita 68 Kazuki Miyata 71 Daisuke Togawa 78 Komei Fujisawa

First squad coaching	Manager: 90 Norio Tanabe Head and pitching coach: 86 Tetsuya Shiozaki Pitching coaches: 72 Yoshihiro Doi Batting coaches: 73 Hideki Hashigami, 76 Masahiro Abe, 80 Shigenobu Shima Fielding/Baserunning coaches: 70 Tomoaki Satoh, 74 Hiroshi Narahara Battery coach: 82 Masanori Taguchi Training coaches: 92 Shinobu Sakamoto, 96 Tatsuya Nakano

Second squad coaching	Manager: 83 Hisanori Yokota Pitching coaches: 89 Shinji Mori, 91 Eiji Kiyokawa Batting coaches: 75 Hiroyuki Takagi, 85 Katsuhiko Miyaji Fielding/Baserunning coaches: 87 Satoshi Kuroda, 77 Shogo Akada Battery coach: 84 Kosaku Akimoto Training coaches: 98 Takafumi Sato, 95 Haruki Kurokawa

Japan roster – 2015 WBSC Premier12

3 Nobuhiro Matsuda 5 Shingo Kawabata 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Akira Nakamura 8 Ryosuke Hirata 9 Takuya Nakashima 10 Yuki Matsui 11 Tomoyuki Sugano 13 Sho Nakata 14 Takahiro Norimoto 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 16 Shohei Otani 18 Kenta Maeda 19 Hirotoshi Masui 21 Yuki Nishi 22 Yudai Ono 23 Tetsuto Yamada 24 Yasuaki Yamasaki 25 Yoshitomo Tsutsugo 27 Ginjiro Sumitani 29 Yasuhiro Ogawa 30 Shota Takeda 35 Kazuhisa Makita 37 Motohiro Shima 52 Yuhei Nakamura 55 Shogo Akiyama 60 Takeya Nakamura

Manager 90 Hiroki Kokubo

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