Koji Uehara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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baseball player
Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1975
Place of Birth: Neyagawa, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: Japan
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
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About Koji Uehara
- Koji Uehara (?? ??, Uehara Koji, [?ehara ko?d?i]; born April 3, 1975) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher.
- He previously played for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), as well as the Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). A right-handed pitcher, Uehara has a solid MLB career strikeout rate, with 10.7 K/9 and walk rate of 1.5 BB/9 (through the 2017 season).
- Through the 2017 season, his career 7.33 K/BB is the best in MLB history for a player with at least 100 innings pitched.
- Uehara won the 2013 ALCS MVP Award, and closed the final game of the 2013 World Series against the St.
- Louis Cardinals.
- With his World Series win, Uehara became one of sixteen players in history to have won both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic.
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