Youngest Player to Debut in NPB
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Youngest Player to Debut in NPB
19 year old Felix Hernandez became one of the youngest player to debut in the Major Leagues when he pitched recently for the Seattle Mariners. Who's the youngest player ever to debut at ichi-gun in the NPB? Chen Wei-yin of the Chunichi Dragons is 20, but I doubt he's the youngest.
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Re: Youngest Player to Debut in NPB
[ Author: Something Lions | Posted: Aug 11, 2005 6:17 PM
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Top draft picks in NPB regularly make the top team's opening day roster straight out of high school. So it's gotta be one of those players - until Tsujimoto makes his debut with the Tigers ichi-gun sometime in the next year or two.
Re: Youngest Player to Debut in NPB
[ Author: Guest: John Brooks | Posted: Aug 11, 2005 7:08 PM
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Yu Darvish is the youngest player this year at 18 years old if I'm not mistaken.
Tsuijmoto of the Hanshin Tigers was the youngest draft pick at 15 years old.
Tsuijmoto of the Hanshin Tigers was the youngest draft pick at 15 years old.
Re: Youngest Player to Debut in NPB
[ Author: Guest: Michael Eng | Posted: Aug 12, 2005 5:52 AM
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Youngest NPB Players
Note: Age is Debut Year - Birth Year
Note: Age is Debut Year - Birth Year
Player Age Birth Debut* Most Recent
Michio Nishizawa 16 1921 1937
Minoru Suzuki 17 1919 1936
Senichi Toguchi 17 1919 1936
Nobuo Tsuji 17 1920 1937
Miyoshi Nakagawa 17 1920 1937
Kiyoshi Yamada 17 1921 1938
Akira Iwamoto 17 1921 1938
Ichiro Ohashi 17 1925 1942
Tokio Hatanaka 17 1926 1943
Shigeru Ohira 17 1926 1943
Seizo Morimoto 17 1926 1943
Eiji Kogure 17 1927 1944
Itsuzo Kawakita 17 1927 1944
Masaichi Kaneda 17 1933 1950
Jiro Hayashi 17 1933 1950
Kozo Koyama 17 1935 1952
Seiji Yamabe 17 1937 1954
Masahiro Yamanaka 17 1937 1954
167 Players 18 n/a n/a
* Tomokazu Ohka 18 1976 1994
680 Players 19 n/a n/a
* Takeshi Aono 19 1983 2002
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