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Place of Birth: Kitasōma District, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
About Manabu Mima
- Manabu Mima (?? ?, born September 19, 1986) is a Japanese professional baseball player.
- A pitcher, he plays for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Pacific League in Nippon Professional Baseball. 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).His wife is a Japanese singer Santos Anna.
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