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Place of Birth: Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
About Jobu Morita
- Jobu Morita (?? ??, Morita Jobu, born November 29, 1980 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan) is a former baseball utility player who played for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball from 2009 to 2011. Morita attended Yamanashi Gakuindai Fuzoku High School.
- Before playing professionally in Japan, Morita played for the Elmira Pioneers of the independent Northeast League in 2004, hitting .271 with 55 hits in 68 games.
- He returned to Elmira - now of the Can-Am Association - for 2005, and hit .263 with 65 hits in 71 games.
- During his time with Elmira, he played all over the diamond, but spent considerable time at second base and in the outfield.
- Overall, he hit .267 with 120 hits in 139 games.He joined the Kagawa Olive Guyners of the independent Shikoku-Kyushu Island League in 2006, where he remained through 2008.
- The Golden Eagles took him as their first pick in the 2008 developmental draft.
- He made his NPB debut in 2009, hitting .300 with 6 hits (including 4 doubles) in 9 games.
- He played a total of four games with the Golden Eagles in 2010 and 2011 and went hitless in 7 at-bats.
- Overall, he hit .222 with 6 hits in 13 games.
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