Takeo Kawamura (baseball)

Takeo Kawamura (川村 丈夫, Kawamura Takeo, born April 30, 1972) is a professional baseball player from Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan. He is a retired pitcher for the Yokohama BayStars.

Takeo Kawamura
Yokohama DeNA BayStars – No. 72
Pitching coach
Born: (1972-04-30) April 30, 1972
Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan
Batted: Right Threw: Right
NPB debut
April 6, 1997, for the Yokohama BayStars
Last NPB appearance
October 5, 2008, for the Yokohama BayStars
NPB statistics
Win–loss record71–64
Earned run average3.72
Strikeouts815
Teams
As player

As coach

Career highlights and awards
  • 2× NPB All-Star (1998, 1999)
Olympic medal record
Men's Baseball
Atlanta 1996 Team Competition

Kawamura won 17 games in 1999 as a starter, and became a reliever in 2004. He marked a 2.31 ERA in 2005, and returned to the starting rotation in 2007.

He won a silver medal playing for the Japanese national team in the 1996 Summer Olympics before entering the Japanese professional leagues.


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