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Daisuke Matsuzaka was born on 13 September, 1980 in Koto Ward, Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese baseball player (born 1980). Discover Daisuke Matsuzaka's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?

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Age 43 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 13 September 1980
Birthday 13 September
Birthplace Koto Ward, Tokyo, Japan
Nationality Japan

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Daisuke Matsuzaka (松坂 大輔) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher, who pitched professionally for 23 seasons, 16 of them in NPB, 7 in MLB.

He is currently a baseball color commentator, critic, reporter, and YouTuber.

Daisuke is nicknamed "the Monster of the Heisei Era" (平成の怪物) in Japan and "Dice-K" in the United States by The Boston Globe and USA Today.

He played for the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Saitama Seibu Lions, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Matsuzaka was selected the MVP of the inaugural and the second World Baseball Classic, and is an Olympic bronze medalist.

1980

Matsuzaka was born on September 13, 1980, in Koto Ward, He was named after Japanese high school star pitcher Daisuke Araki.

Growing up in Koto, Tokyo, he studied kendo from the age of five to nine and began playing organized baseball when he was in third grade.

Due to the large number of players from the 1998 Summer Koshien cohort who went on to enjoy success at the professional level, baseball players who were born in the 1980 Japanese academic year (from April 2, 1980, to the following April 1, 1981) have been called the "Matsuzaka Generation" in Japan.

1996

After excelling at the Little League and junior high level, Daisuke Matsuzaka was admitted into Yokohama High School, a baseball powerhouse, in the spring of 1996.

By his second of three years, he had developed into the school's ace pitcher.

Despite his early success, he would experience a setback that summer when he threw a go-ahead wild pitch in the semi-final game of the Kanagawa Prefecture preliminary round of the National High School Baseball Championship (Summer Koshien).

During that offseason, his fastballs first began to regularly sit around 87 mph (140 km/h).

1998

After pitching his school to the championship of the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (Spring Koshien), Matsuzaka set his aim on the 1998 Summer Koshien and eventually led his school to the championship.

In the quarterfinal of the 1998 Summer Koshien, Matsuzaka threw 250 pitches in 17 innings in a win over PL Gakuen.

(The previous day he had thrown a 148-pitch complete game shutout.) The next day, despite trailing 6–0 in the top of the eighth inning, the team miraculously won the game after scoring 7 runs in the final two innings (four in the eighth and three in the ninth).

He started the game in left field, but came in as a reliever in the ninth inning to record the win in 15 pitches.

In the final, he threw a no-hitter, the second ever in a final.

This performance garnered him the attention of many scouts.

After graduating from high school, he was taken by the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Saitama Seibu Lions with the first pick of the 1998 draft, although both the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks of the North American Major Leagues also recruited him.

At first, Matsuzaka stated that he wanted to play for the Yokohama BayStars, and, if he could not, he would then go to work for a company and after which choose the team of his choice through the reverse-draft (gyaku-shimei) system.

That changed however, when the manager of the Lions, Osamu Higashio, an accomplished pitcher in his own right, met with Matsuzaka for dinner.

At the dinner, Higashio gave Matsuzaka his winning ball for career win number 200.

Matsuzaka accepted it and allowed himself to be drafted by the Lions.

1999

Matsuzaka won his first official pro game in his first start of the 1999 season against the Nippon Ham Fighters at the Tokyo Dome.

His first career strikeout came against Atsushi Kataoka in the first inning on a high fastball clocked at 155 km/h (96 mph).

He won the game, but he also gave up the first home run in the game to Michihiro Ogasawara of the Nippon Ham Fighters.

On May 16, 1999, when Matsuzaka was in his rookie season at age 18, he first faced Ichiro Suzuki, a player for the Orix Bluewave at the time, and recorded three strikeouts in three at-bats with a walk.

Matsuzaka states that this game was the moment he started to believe that he "belonged" in pro baseball.

Matsuzaka started in the All-Star game as a rookie in 1999.

He struck out Takuro Ishii and Takanori Suzuki of the Bay Stars before number three hitter Yoshinobu Takahashi of the Giants managed to make contact and fly out to left field.

In his first professional season in 1999, Matsuzaka had 16 wins and five losses as the team ace, and was voted Rookie of the Year.

Another rookie pitcher in the rival Central League, Koji Uehara, also won the same honor with a 20-win season.

Together, they would come to represent their respective leagues as dominant starting pitchers for seasons to come.

2000

In 2000, Matsuzaka had 14 wins and 7 losses.

2001

He had 15 wins and 15 losses in his 2001 season and won the Eiji Sawamura Award.

2002

Matsuzaka spent a considerable portion of his 2002 season on the disabled list, which did not count toward his service time.

He was not able to regain his pitching form in the 2002 Japan Series, when the Lions faced the Yomiuri Giants.

In Game 1 at Tokyo Dome, where the designated hitter rule is not allowed, Matsuzaka batted 7th in the lineup to take advantage of his above-average hitting for a pitcher.

2006

He is the first player to have won both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic, winning the 2006 World Baseball Classic with Team Japan and the 2007 World Series with the Red Sox.

2010

However, Ichiro would get a bit of revenge on Matsuzaka by hitting his 100th career home run off him in July of that year.