Yusaku Iriki

Iriki pitching for the Shonan Searex, Yokohama BayStars' farm team, in 2008.

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – No. 99

Starting pitcher / Coach

Born: August 8, 1972
Miyakonojō, Miyazaki, Japan

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

debut

April 8, 1997, for the Yomiuri Giants

Last appearance

April 2, 2008, for the Yokohama BayStars

Career statistics

Win–loss record

35–35

Earned run average

3.77

Strikeouts

674

Teams

As player

Yomiuri Giants (1997–2002)
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2004–2005)
Yokohama BayStars (2008)

As coach

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (2015–present)

Yusaku Iriki (入来祐作, Iriki Yūsaku, born August 8, 1972 in Miyakonojō, Miyazaki, Japan) is a Japanese former baseball pitcher.

His elder brother Satoshi is also a former professional baseball player.

Biography

Iriki attended the Perfect Liberty High School and Asia University (Japan) before joining the Honda amateur baseball team. He was drafted by the Yomiuri Giants in 1996. In 1999, his older brother, Satoshi, was traded to the Giants from the Kintetsu Buffaloes, and the two were teammates from 1999–2000. In 2001, he led the team in wins (13), and appeared in the all-star game for the first time. His brother had also made it to the all-star game, pitching for the Yakult Swallows, and the Iriki brothers made back to back appearances in the all-star game. This was the first all-star sibling relay in Japanese baseball history.

In the 2003 off-season, Iriki was traded to the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, and caused some controversy by trying to make the team ensure that he would be released to play in the major leagues in two years. Iriki got his wish in 2006, signing a major league contract with the New York Mets. He did not make it onto the major league roster, and was given a minor league contract in April of the same year. On April 28, 2006, Iriki was suspended for 50 games for violating Major League Baseball's policy against performance-enhancing drug use.^[1] The suspension originated from testing during the Mets' spring training camp.

Iriki was dropped by the Mets at the end of 2006, and spent the 2007 season in the Toronto Blue Jays minor league system. He returned to the Japanese leagues in 2008, signing with the Yokohama Bay Stars. After the season, he announced his retirement from professional baseball.

References

↑ "Mets pitcher gets 50-game doping ban", Yahoo! Sports, April 28, 2006

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks current roster

First squad	0 Tomoki Takata 1 Seiichi Uchikawa 2 Kenta Imamiya 4 Keisuke Kaneko 5 Nobuhiro Matsuda 6 Yuki Yoshimura 7 Akira Nakamura 9 Yuki Yanagita 11 Kenichi Nakata 12 Hiroaki Takaya 13 Akira Niho 17 Sho Iwasaki 18 Daisuke Matsuzaka 19 Masahiko Morifuku 20 Hayato Terahara 21 Tsuyoshi Wada 23 Ryuma Kidokoro 24 Yuya Hasegawa 25 Shingo Tatsumi 27 Toru Hosokawa 28 Kenji Otonari 30 Shota Takeda 33 Shinya Tsuruoka 34 Hiroki Yamada 35 Keizo Kawashima 36 Kenji Akashi 37 Shuhei Fukuda 38 Yuito Mori 41 Kodai Senga 43 Tomoaki Egawa 44 Rick VandenHurk 46 Yuichi Honda 50 Tadashi Settsu 51 Seiji Uebayashi 53 Ryota Igarashi 54 Akihiro Yanase 58 Dennis Sarfate 65 Edison Barrios 95 Bárbaro Cañizares

Second squad	00 Hikaru Kawase 14 Ren Kajiya 16 Nao Higashihama 22 Ayatsugu Yamashita 31 Ryoya Kurihara 32 Masayoshi Tsukada 39 Yosuke Shimabukuro 40 Reiji Kozawa 42 Yuya Iida 45 Kenta Tanigawara 47 Jumpei Takahashi 48 Ken Okamoto 49 Masato Sakata 55 Kenta Chatani 56 Daichi Hoshino 57 Shinya Kayama 59 Shogo Furusawa 60 Go Kamamoto 61 Kenta Kurose 62 Takuya Kai 63 Taiga Kasahara 64 Yusuke Masago 66 Yuki Matsumoto 67 Shunsuke Kasaya 68 Kentaro Inomoto 69 Taisei Makihara 90 Robert Suarez 121 Shoji Yoshimoto (Trainee) 122 Hiroyuki Kawahara (Trainee) 123 Yusuke Itoh (Trainee) 124 Kazuhiro Kohyama (Trainee) 125 Lee Tu-Hsuan (Trainee) 126 Seiya Saitoh (Trainee) 127 Daichiro Itoh (Trainee) 128 Amon Yamashita (Trainee) 129 Yuto Nozawa (Trainee) 130 Ryuya Kodama (Trainee) 131 Tamon Horiuchi (Trainee) 132 Yuichi Higoshi (Trainee) 133 Eiji Kakinoki (Trainee) 134 Shota Kaneko (Trainee) 136 Shin Nakamura (Trainee) 137 Takeshi Watanabe (Trainee) 138 Shuta Ishikawa (Trainee) 139 Shinsuke Tobo (Trainee) 140 Kaisei Sone (Trainee) 141 Masahiro Harimoto (Trainee)

First squad coaching	Manager: 81 Kimiyasu Kudoh Pitching coaches: 70 Yoshinori Sato, 82 Keisaburo Tanoue Hitting coaches: 71 Yasuo Fujii, 75 Noriyoshi Omichi Fielding and base coaches for infielders: 88 Yusuke Torigoe Fielding and base coaches for outfielders: 78 Tetsuya Iida Battery coach: 84 Masaumi Shimizu

Second squad coaching	Manager: 80 Yoshio Mizukami Pitching coaches: 94 Shinji Kurano, 98 Hiroshi Takamura, 99 Yusaku Iriki Hitting coach: 72 Koichi Sekikawa, 76 Hiroshi Fujimoto Fielding and base coaches for infielders: 74 Hiroshi Ogawa Fielding and base coaches for outfielders: 87 Tatsuya Ide Battery coach: 86 Fujio Tamura

Third squad coaching	Manager: 92 Shigeru Ishiwata Pitching coaches: 73 Manabu Saito, 91 Masahiro Sakumoto Hitting coaches: 96 Makoto Sasaki Fielding and base coaches for infielders: 83 Yasutomo Suzuki Fielding and base coaches for outfielders: 93 Arihito Muramatsu Battery coach: 85 Tetsuya Matoyama

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Yusaku Iriki

Biography

References

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