MURAKAMI Munetaka

Baseball/Softball

Date of Birth: 2 Feb 2000

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.88/6'2''

Place of birth: KUMAMOTO

Birth Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Baseball/Softball	Baseball JPN Japan	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium	Baseball Opening Round Group A #1 DOM Dominican Rep. 3 JPN Japan 4	Finished
	Yokohama Baseball Stadium	Baseball Opening Round Group A #5 JPN Japan 7 MEX Mexico 4	Finished
	Yokohama Baseball Stadium	Baseball Round 2 #10 USA United States 6 JPN Japan 7	Finished
	Yokohama Baseball Stadium	Baseball Semifinal #13 KOR Republic of Korea 2 JPN Japan 5	Finished
	Yokohama Baseball Stadium	Baseball Gold Medal Game #16 USA United States 0 JPN Japan 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

Tokyo Yakult Swallows since 2018

Shingo Takatsu [club], JPN; Atsunori Inaba [national], JPN

Position style:

Infield (chunichi.co.jp, 16 Jun 2021)

Bats left, throws right (yakult-swallows.co.jp, 01 Jul 2021)

Sporting relatives:

His older brother Yuki Murakami has played baseball for Japanese amateur team Ts Tech as a pitcher. (nikkan-gendai.com, 02 Dec 2017; sanspo.com, 12 Jan 2021)

2019 for Japan Against Mexico (chunichi.co.jp, 16 Jun 2021)

National league:

NPB [JPN] (yakult-swallows.co.jp, 01 Jul 2021)

He took up the sport in grade four of primary school in Kumamoto, Japan. (nikkan-gendai.com, 02 Dec 2017)

He began playing catch with his older brother at age four, before joining a baseball team at primary school. (nikkan-gendai.com, 02 Dec 2017)

In 2020 he received a Best Nine and an On Base Percentage [OBP] Leader award from Nippon Professional Baseball [NPB]. (npb.jp, 2020)

In 2019 he received the Nippon Professional Baseball [NPB] Central League Rookie of the Year Award in Japan. (asahi.com, 26 Nov 2019)

General Interest

General
POSITION
He began playing as a catcher while in middle school. However, he switched to the infield in 2018 after the head coach of NPB team Tokyo Yakult Swallows selected him in the first round of the NPB Draft in order to use him as a third baseman. (sankei.com, 02 Oct 2017; nikkan-gendai.com, 02 Dec 2017)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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