Naoto Nishida
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| Naoto Nishida | |
|---|---|
 Nishida with the Hanshin Tigers | |
| Infielder | |
| Born: April 26, 1993 | |
Bats: Left Throws: Right | |
| NPB debut | |
| July 28, 2013, for the Hanshin Tigers | |
| NPB statistics (through 2013) | |
| Games played | 1 |
| At bats | 2 |
| Hit | 0 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Teams | |
Naoto Nishida (西田 直斗, Nishida Naoto; born 26 April 1993 in Kashiwara, Osaka) is a professional baseball player, and an infielder for the Hanshin Tigers, a team in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball League.
Nishida attended Osaka Tōin High School and became a member of the first-team of the school's baseball club in the second half of his first year. In his second year he became a starting member and his school was selected to participate in the 2010 National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament. In the first round match against Chiba Prefecture's Boyo High School, Nishida recorded three hits and batted in five runs in a 9-2 win.[1] In his third year, Osaka Toin lost the championship match of the Osaka Prefecture tournament, thereby failing to qualify for the 2011 national championship tournament. Shintaro Fujinami was a teammate in his final two years of high school, and later became a teammate at Hanshin.
Nishida was selected by the Hanshin Tigers in the third round of the 2011 Nippon Professional Baseball draft.