Japanese-Born MLB Home Run Leaders

[DocTee]

Val Pascucci?

Vinnie Pasquantino?

;)

[Cowtipper]

A couple of clues.

4 western names remain.

There is a Masahide.

There's also this guy. Pitched 9 years on the bigs. Third all time in appearances for JBMLB. A little hurt we've forgotten him.

I cheated and looked up the rest of the guys I didn't know. This one I should have guessed.

[Cowtipper]

Don't leave the people hanging!

[Centerfield]

The complete list. Some of these are impossible. But on the other hand, you guys guessed a few that I never would have thought would be guessed. Junichi Tazawa is the Red Sock pictured in this thread. Shota Imanaga is the lefty in the Team Japan uniform. We're facing him this week. The reliever is Yuki Matsui

1. Shogo Akiyama
2. Nori Aoki
3. Kohei Arihara
4. Jim Bowie
5. Steve Chitren
6. Yu Darvish
7. Bobby Fenwick
8. Kyuji Fujikawa
9. Shintaro Fujinami
10. Kosuke Fukudome
11. Kazuo Fukimori
12. Shigetoshi Hasegawa
13. Yoshihisha Hirano
14. Craig House
15. Ryota Igarashi
16. Kei Igawa
17. Tadahito Iguchi
18. Shota Imanaga
19. Hideki Irabu
20. Kazuhisa Ishii
21. Hisashi Iwakuma
22. Akinori Iwamura
23. Kenji Johjima
24. Takashi Kashiwada
25. Kenshin Kawakami
26. Munenori Kawasaki
27. Masao Kida
28. Yusei Kikuchi
29. Masahide Kobayashi
30. Satoru Komiyama
31. Hiroki Kuroda
32. Masumi Kuwata
33. Jung Hoon Lee
34. Kenta Maeta
35. Kazuhisa Makita
36. Hideki Matsui
37. Kazuo Matsui
38. Yuki Matsui
39. Daisuke Matsuzaka
40. Jeff McCurry
41. Keith McDonald
42. Masanori Murakami
43. Toru Murata
44. Micheal Nakamura
45. Norihiro Nakamura
46. Tsuyoshi Nishioka
47. Hideo Nomo
48. Takahito Nomura
49. Tomo Ohka
50. Shohei Ohtani
51. Hideki Okajima
52. Akinori Otsuka
53. Steve Randolph
54. Dave Roberts
55. Takashi Saito
56. Kazuhiro Sasaki
57. Hirokazu Sawamura
58. Kodai Senga
59. Tsuyoshi Shinjo
60. Ichiro Suzuki
61. Mac Suzuki
62. Seiya Suzuki
63. Kazuhito Tadano
64. So Taguchi
65. Hisanori Takahashi
66. Ken Takahashi
67. Shingo Takatsu
68. Kensuke Tanaka
69. Masahiro Tanaka
70. Yoshinori Tateyama
71. Junichi Tazawa
72. Yoshi Tsutugo
73. Koji Uehara
74. Tsuyoshi Wada
75. Keiichi Yabu
76. Yasuhiko Yabuta
77. Shun Yamaguchi
78. Yoshinobu Yamamoto
79. Masataka Yoshida
80. Masato Yoshii

[Edgy MD]

I should have gotten Imanaga, and might have gotten Kobayashi, but most of those, not in a million years.

I thought there was a guy with a western first name and a Japanese surname — Michael Hashimoto, or something.

[MFS62]

I thought there was a guy with a western first name and a Japanese surname — Michael Hashimoto, or something.

Were you thinking of Ken Takahashi? (It isn't short for Kenji, according to baseball reference)
Later

[Edgy MD]

No, I'm the one who offered Ken earlier.

I assumed his name is a shortened version of Kenzo or the like.

[Edgy MD]

This guy https://www.baseball-reference.com/play ... mi01.shtml

But now I see he's on the list and I just missed him.

[Cowtipper]

In retrospect, I should have known Tazawa, Tsutugo, Wada, Murata and the American guys. Especially Randolph...I kept thinking there was a black guy but I couldn't place him. I was thinking he played for the Mariners.

[Frayed Knot]

btw, there is a tight little grouping for the winningest Japanese pitcher when MLB & NPB wins are combined

Hiroki Kuroda 203, 79 MLB (LAD & NYY)* + 124 NPB
Hideo Nomo 201: 123 MLB (LAD, KCR, TBR, NYM, BOS, DET, MIL) + 78 NPB
Yu Darvish 199** (TEX, SDP, CHC, LAD): 106 MLB + 93 NPB


* I have absolutely no memory of this guy, even from his time w/the Yanx
** Likely 200 before the night is out

[Edgy MD]

He's the guy who always made you think about Rookie Carroca.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, the name is familiar but I have no specific memories of him at all.
I was shocked to discover he pitched three seasons and made 97 starts for the Yanquis.