Yoshiro Sotokoba

Yoshiro Sotokoba
Yoshiro Sotokoba
	Pitcher / Coach
	Born: June 1, 1945; Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
NPB debut
	April 21, 1965, for the Hiroshima Carp
Last NPB appearance
	October 14, 1979, for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp
NPB statistics
Win–loss record	131-138
Earned Run Average	2.88
Strikeouts	1,678
Saves	3
	Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
	As player Hiroshima Carp / Hiroshima Toyo Carp (1965–1979); As coach Hiroshima Toyo Carp (1980–1990, 1996–1999); Orix BlueWave (1991–1993);
Career highlights and awards
	1× Central League Best Nine Award (1975); 1× Eiji Sawamura Award (1975); 1× Central League wins champion (1975); 1× Central League ERA champion (1968); 1× Central League strikeout champion (1975); 6× NPB All-Star (1968–1970, 1972, 1974–1975); Pitched a perfect game (September 14, 1968); 3× Pitched a no-hitter;
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	2013
	Last updated on: 24 October 2020

Win–loss record131-138

Earned Run Average2.88

Strikeouts1,678

Saves3

Yoshiro Sotokoba (外木場義郎, Sotokoba Yoshiro; born June 1, 1945 in Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan) is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher. ^[1] Sotokoba threw a perfect game in 1968. He was also inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013.^[2]

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v t e Members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
1950s inductees	Matsutarō Shōriki (1959) Hiroshi Hiraoka (1959) Yukio Aoi (1959) Shin Hashido (1959) Kiyoshi Oshikawa (1959) Michimaro Ono (1959) Jiro Kuji (1959) Eiji Sawamura (1959) Iso Abe (1959)
1960s inductees	Victor Starffin (1960) Atsushi Kono (1960) Yaichiro Sakurai (1960) Chujun Tobita (1960) Yutaka Ikeda (1962) Haruyasu Nakajima (1963) Tadashi Wakabayashi (1964) Masaru Kageura (1965) Tetsuharu Kawakami (1965) Kazuto Tsuruoka (1965) Tsunetaro Moriyama (1966) Ichizō Kobayashi (1968) Yoriyasu Arima (1969)
1970s inductees	Shunichi Amachi (1970) Nobuaki Nidegawa (1970) Komajiro Tamura (1970) Tokuro Konishi (1971) Rihachi Mizuno (1971) Shuichi Ishimoto (1972) Hirozo Utsumi (1973) Sadasuke Amano (1973) Sadayoshi Fujimoto (1974) Fumio Fujimura (1974) Hideo Fujimoto (1976) Shigeru Mizuhara (1977) Michio Nishizawa (1977) Kenjiro Matsuki (1978) Shinji Hamazaki (1978) Takehiko Bessho (1979)
1980s inductees	Hiroshi Ohshita (1980) Makoto Kozuru (1980) Shigeru Chiba (1980) Tokuji Iida (1981) Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (1981) Osamu Mihara (1983) Uchimura Yushi (1983) Shinji Kirihara (1984) Shigeru Sugishita (1985) Katsumi Shiraishi (1985) Atsushi Aramaki (1985) Takeo Akuta (1988) Shigeo Nagashima (1988) Kaoru Betto (1988) Masaichi Nagata (1988) Saburo Yokozawa (1988) Yukio Nishimoto (1988) Masaichi Kaneda (1988) Hidenosuke Shima (1989) Katsuya Nomura (1989) Jiro Noguchi (1989)
1990s inductees	Juzo Sanada (1990) Isao Harimoto (1990) Shigeru Makino (1991) Osamu Tsutsui (1991) Kichiro Shimaoka (1991) Tatsuro Hirooka (1992) Michinori Tsubouchi (1992) Masao Yoshida (1992) Yoshio Yoshida (1992) Kazuhisa Inao (1993) Minoru Murayama (1993) Sadaharu Oh (1994) Wally Yonamine (1994) Shosei Go (1995) Tadashi Sugiura (1995) Tokichiro Ishii (1995) Motoshi Fujita (1996) Sachio Kinugasa (1996) Katsuo Osugi (1997) Futoshi Nakanishi (1999) Yoshinori Hirose (1999) Takeshi Koba (1999) Sadao Kondoh (1999) Ichiro Yoshikuni (1999)
2000s inductees	Tetsuya Yoneda (2000) Rikuo Nemoto (2001) Masaaki Koyama (2001) Kazuhiro Yamauchi (2002) Keishi Suzuki (2002) Yutaka Fukumoto (2002) Kenjiro Tamiya (2002) Lefty O'Doul (2002) Masaoka Shiki (2002) Toshiharu Ueda (2003) Junzo Sekine (2003) Horace Wilson (2003) Sakae Suzuka (2003) Akira Ohgi (2004) Noboru Akiyama (2004) Choji Murata (2005) Masaaki Mori (2005) Masayori Shimura (2005) Hiromitsu Kadota (2006) Morimichi Takagi (2006) Hisashi Yamada (2006) Yasumitsu Toyoda (2006) Hiromori Kawashima (2006) Takao Kajimoto (2007) Reiichi Matsunaga (2007) Seiichi Shima (2008) Koji Yamamoto (2008) Tsuneo Horiuchi (2008) Noboru Aota (2009) Tsutomu Wakamatsu (2009)
2010s inductees	Osamu Higashio (2010) Shinichi Eto (2010) Hiromitsu Ochiai (2011) Mutsuo Minagawa (2011) Manabu Kitabeppu (2012) Tsunemi Tsuda (2012) Yutaka Ohno (2013) Yoshiro Sotokoba (2013) Hideo Nomo (2014) Koji Akiyama (2014) Kazuhiro Sasaki (2014) Atsuya Furuta (2015) Kihachi Enomoto (2016) Kimiyasu Kudoh (2016) Masaki Saito (2016) Tsutomu Ito (2017) Masaji Hiramatsu (2017) Senichi Hoshino (2017) Hideki Matsui (2018) Tomoaki Kanemoto (2018) Tatsunori Hara (2018) Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (2019) Hiroshi Gondoh (2019)
2020s inductees	Koichi Tabuchi (2020) Yukichi Maeda (2020) Renzo Ishii (2020) Kazuo Sayama (2021) Katsuji Kawashima (2021) Shigeyoshi Matsumae (2022) Shingo Takatsu (2022) Masa Yamamoto (2022) Alex Ramírez (2023) Randy Bass (2023) Yūji Koseki (2023) Hiroki Kuroda (2024) Motonobu Tanishige (2024) Ichiro Suzuki (2025) Hitoki Iwase (2025) Hiroya Tomizawa (2025) Masayuki Kakefu (2025) Hideki Kuriyama (2026)

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Yoshiro Sotokoba

Pitcher / Coach
Born: (1945-06-01)June 1, 1945 Izumi, Kagoshima, Japan
Batted: Right Threw: Right
NPB debut
April 21, 1965, for the Hiroshima Carp
Last NPB appearance
October 14, 1979, for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp
NPB statistics
Win–loss record	131-138
Earned Run Average	2.88
Strikeouts	1,678
Saves	3
Stats at Baseball Reference

Teams
As player Hiroshima Carp / Hiroshima Toyo Carp (1965–1979) As coach Hiroshima Toyo Carp (1980–1990, 1996–1999) Orix BlueWave (1991–1993)
Career highlights and awards
1× Central League Best Nine Award (1975) 1× Eiji Sawamura Award (1975) 1× Central League wins champion (1975) 1× Central League ERA champion (1968) 1× Central League strikeout champion (1975) 6× NPB All-Star (1968–1970, 1972, 1974–1975) Pitched a perfect game (September 14, 1968) 3× Pitched a no-hitter
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	2013

Last updated on: 24 October 2020