Manabu Mima
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Born
1986 (38 years old)
Birth Place
Kitasōma District, IbarakiPosition
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Asian
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15
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Chiba Lotte Marines
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Manabu Mima (美馬 学, born September 19, 1986) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Nippon Professional Baseball(NPB). He played for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Career
Mima attended Fujishiro High School and Chuo University. Mima pitched for Tokyo Gas in the industrial leagues after college. The Rakuten Golden Eagles chose him in the second round of the 2010 draft. He then joined the Japanese national baseball team for the 2010 Asian Games. Mima's repertoire includes a slider, forkball, curveball, shuuto (two-seamer), and a fastball (tops out at 95 mph). He debuted on April 13, 2011, tossing a scoreless 8th to preserve a 5–1 lead over the Chiba Lotte Marines.
In the 2013 season, Mima had a 6-5 win–loss record and a 4.12 earned run average. Mima was the winning pitcher in Games 3 and 7 of the 2013 Japan Series, and was named the Japan Series Most Valuable Player (MVP).
On November 25, 2019, Mima signed with the Chiba Lotte Marines.
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His wife is Japanese singer Anna.
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