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Yoshihiro Maru was born on 11 April, 1989 in Katsuura, Chiba, Japan, is a Japanese baseball player. Discover Yoshihiro Maru'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 34 years old?

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Age 34 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 11 April 1989
Birthday 11 April
Birthplace Katsuura, Chiba, Japan
Nationality Chiba

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Yoshihiro Maru (丸 佳浩) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

He previously played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.

1921

He was second in runs (21 behind Yamada), second in homers (two behind Neftali Soto), 4th in RBI (between Dayan Viciedo and Soto), first in walks (24 more than Yamada), first in OBP (.030 ahead of Suzuki), second in slugging (.017 behind Soto) and first in OPS (39 ahead of Suzuki).

He joined Suzuki and Soto in getting the Best Nine honors and won another Gold Glove.

1922

He was the 22nd player in NPB history to reach triple-digits in walks.

He finished the year all over the CL leaderboards: 9th in average (between Kazuhiro Hatakeyama and Shingo Kawabata), 2nd in OBP (only .0003 behind Balentien), 8th in slugging (between Hector Luna and Hatakeyama), 3rd in OPS (behind Balentien and Tetsuto Yamada), tied for first in runs (with Yamada), 8th in hits (166), tied for 6th in doubles (with Mauro Gomez), tied for second in triples (four shy of Takayuki Kajitani), tied for 9th in homers (with Abe), 3rd in steals (behind Kajitani and Oshima), 2nd in caught stealing (one behind Oshima), led in walks (13 over Takashi Toritani) while falling to a tie for 9th in whiffs (with Yamada and Balentien) and 5th in total bases (263).

He won his second Gold Glove and made the Best Nine as one of the CL's top three flyhawks (alongside Yuhei Takai and Matt Murton).

1925

He made the CL leaders in runs (tying Chonost for second behind Wladimir Balentien), doubles (25, 9th), triples (5, 1st), steals (1st, 5 over Hayato Sakamoto), caught stealing (1st, 6 more than anyone else), walks (4th, between Shinnosuke Abe and Kazuhiro Wada), strikeouts (103, 6th, between Balentien and Chono) and OBP (6th, between Murata and Wada).

He made his first CL All-Star team.

2007

In 2007 NPB draft, Hiroshima Toyo Carp selected him in the third round.

He missed time his first year in the minors with injuries to his elbow and toe and a norovirus.

2010

He hit .277 with 21 steals in the minors in 2010.

He was called up to Hiroshima later in the year.

In his debut, he pinch-hit for Ren Nakata and was retired by Marc Kroon.

His first hit came off Takehiko Oshimoto, singling as a pinch-hitter for Keisuke Imai.

He was 3 for 19 with two walks, a steal, a run and a RBI in 14 games for the Carp in 2010.

He was 4th in the Central League with 105 strikeouts (between Takahiro Arai and Shuichi Murata).

He was 3rd in the CL in runs (4 behind Yamada and Kosuke Tanaka, 5th in OBP (between Fukudome and Arai), 10th in slugging, 5th in hits (162, between Chono and Murata), was second in doubles (2 behind Murata), tied Seiya Suzuki for second in triples, missed the top ten in homers by two, was 7th in RBI (between Suzuki and Murata), placed 5th in steals and was third in walks (behind Yamada and Tsutsugo). He won a Gold Glove and joined Suzuki and Tsutsugo in the Gold Glove outfield.

2011

His first NPB homer came off Tomokazu Ohka on April 19, 2011.

He became Hiroshima's starting center fielder that year, unseating Soichiro Amaya and Masato Akamatsu.

He hit .241/.319/.359.

2012

In 2012, he batted .247/.353/.353 with 14 steals in 20 tries, splitting CF with Amaya and Akamatsu and backing up Jun Hirose in RF.

2013

By 2013, he was back in a starting role in center, usually hitting leadoff or second.

He produced at a .273/.376/.425 clip with 85 walks, 14 home runs, 82 runs and 29 steals but was caught 15 times.

He won a Gold Glove after fielding .992 (albeit with just one assist); Sho Aranami and Hisayoshi Chono were the other CL Gold Glove winners.

2014

Early in 2014, he became the Carp's regular #3 batter.

He hit .310/.419/.491 with 30 doubles, 5 triples, 19 home runs, 100 walks, 106 runs and 26 steals in 37 tries.

He fielded .993 and this time also had 8 outfield assists.

He got three second-place votes for the 2014 Central League Most Valuable Player Award.

2015

In the 2015 season, he struggled, hitting .249/.361/.413.

He still had 28 doubles, 19 homers and 94 walks, but his steals were down (15 in 22), his strikeouts were up (143) and his average was obviously down.

He still tied Kosuke Fukudome for 9th in OBP, was third in runs (after Yamada and Kawabata), tied Gomez and Yoshi Tsutsugo for 7th in doubles, tied Brad Eldred for 6th in home runs and led in walks again (5 more than Toritani).

He fielded .996, with 273 putouts, 6 assists and one error.

He won his third straight Gold Glove, joining Oshima and Fukudome.

2016

Maru hit .291/.389/.481 with 30 doubles, 8 triples, 20 homers, 23 steals in 32 tries, 98 runs, 90 RBI and 84 walks in 2016.

2017

For the 2017 season, his batting line was .308/.398/.505.

The multi-tool threat had 109 runs, 35 doubles, 23 home runs, 83 walks and 92 RBI while his steal total was down a bit (13 SB, 3 CS).

He led the CL in runs (four ahead of Tanaka), tied José López for the most hits (171), was 4th in doubles (between Masayuki Kuwahara and Tanaka), ranked 8th in circuit clouts (between Yamada and Kajitani), was third in RBI (after López and Tsutsugo), was 5th in average (between Tomohiro Abe and López), was 4th in walks (between Tanaka and Fukudome), was just behind Tanaka in OBP (both rounded to .398, Maru up a bit, Tanaka down a bit) and was 7th in slugging (between Balentien and Toshiro Miyazaki).

He won another Gold Glove, made another Best Nine (alongside Suzuki and Tsutsugo) and won the 2017 Central League Most Valuable Player Award., with 196 of 286 first-place votes and 1,134 vote points to 381 for runner-up Kazuki Yabuta (Tomoyuki Sugano was second in first-place votes at 40).

2018

Maru was again dominant in 2018 despite missing time with a hamstring injury: .306/.468/.627, 39 HR, 130 BB, 109 R, 97 RBI, .996 fielding percentage.