Koji Uehara facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Koji Uehara
上原浩治
Quick facts for kidsKoji Uehara; 上原浩治
	Koji Uehara with the Baltimore Orioles
	Pitcher
	Born: April 3, 1975 (age 46); Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
Professional debut
	NPB: March 29, 1999, for the Yomiuri Giants
	MLB: April 8, 2009, for the Baltimore Orioles
Last appearance
	MLB: September 2, 2017, for the Chicago Cubs
	NPB: 2019, for the Yomiuri Giants
NPB statistics
Win–loss record	112–67
Earned run average	3.03
Strikeouts	1,410
MLB statistics
Win–loss record	22–26
Earned run average	2.66
Strikeouts	572
Saves	95
Teams
	Yomiuri Giants (1999–2008); Baltimore Orioles (2009–2011); Texas Rangers (2011–2012); Boston Red Sox (2013–2016); Chicago Cubs (2017); Yomiuri Giants (2018–2019);
Career highlights and awards
	NPB 9× All-Star (1999–2005, 2007, 2018); 2× Japan Series champion (2000, 2002); 2× Eiji Sawamura Award (1999, 2002); Triple Crown (1999); Central League Rookie of the Year (1999); 2× Golden Glove (1999, 2003); 2× Best Nine Award (1999, 2002); 2× NPB wins leader (1999, 2002); 2× NPB ERA leader (1999, 2004); 2× NPB strikeout leader (1999, 2003); MLB All-Star (2014); World Series champion (2013); ALCS MVP (2013);
Men's baseball
	Representing JPN
Olympic Games
World Baseball Classic

Koji Uehara (上原浩治code: ja is deprecated , Uehara Kōji, born April 3, 1975) is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), as well as the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB).

A right-handed pitcher, Uehara has an MLB career strikeout rate of 10.7 K/9 innings and a walk rate of 1.5 BB/9 (through the 2017 season). Through the 2017 season, his career 7.33 K/BB is the best in MLB history for a player with at least 100 innings pitched. He won the 2013 ALCS MVP Award, and closed the final game of the 2013 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. With his World Series win, he became one of sixteen players in history to have won both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic.

Images for kids

Uehara pitching for the Chicago Cubs in 2017
Uehara pitching for the Yomiuri Giants in 2018