Yuma Tongu
Japanese baseball player
Baseball player
| Yuma Tongu | |
|---|---|
 Tongu with the Orix Buffaloes | |
| Orix Buffaloes – No. 44 | |
| Catcher / Infielder | |
| Born: (1996-11-17) November 17, 1996 (age 27) Bizen, Okayama, Japan | |
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
| NPB debut | |
| March 29, 2019, for the Orix Buffaloes | |
| NPB statistics (through 2023 season) | |
| Batting average | .264 |
| Home runs | 37 |
| RBIs | 112 |
| Teams | |
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| Career highlights and awards | |
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Yuma Tongu (頓宮 裕真, Tongu Yuma, born November 17, 1996 in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball. He plays catcher and infielder, specifically on every infield position outside of shortstop.[1][2]
In elementary school, Tongu was friends and teammates with future Buffaloes teammate Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and at the time, Yamamoto also played catcher, so both played catch with each other.[3]
He is often nicknamed "Yumer", as he chose the number 44 used by former Hankyu Braves foreign slugger Greg "Boomer" Wells. When he picked it, he stated that he wanted to be called that once he lived up to the number 44. Eventually, he also got one of Wells's gloves, which he said he would treat like a family heirloom.
References
- ^ Organization, Nippon Professional Baseball. "Tongu,Yuma（ORIX Buffaloes） | Players". Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-07-30.
- ^ "44 頓宮 裕真 選手名鑑2023". オリックス・バファローズ (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-07-30.
- ^ "頓宮裕真 | オリックス・バファローズ | 選手". 週刊ベースボールONLINE (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-07-30.
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Orix Buffaloes current roster
- 00 Anderson Espinoza
- 11 Shunpeita Yamashita
- 12 Kōhei Azuma
- 13 Hiroya Miyagi
- 14 Yūki Udagawa
- 15 Ren Mukunoki
- 16 Yoshihisa Hirano
- 17 Ryūhei Sotani
- 19 Taisuke Yamaoka
- 20 Shōta Abe
- 21 Sōichirō Yamazaki
- 22 Ryōta Muranishi
- 23 Kōsei Yoshida
- 26 Kyōsuke Saitoh
- 28 Ryōga Tomiyama
- 29 Daiki Tajima
- 35 Motoki Higa
- 42 Andrés Machado
- 43 Yuito Mae
- 46 Hitomi Honda
- 48 Kaisei Tōmatsu
- 52 Kaede Yokoyama
- 54 Luis Castillo
- 56 Atsuya Kogita
- 57 Nobuyoshi Yamada
- 58 Kazutomo Iguchi
- 63 Kōsuke Kawachi
- 66 Hiroshi Suzuki
- 96 Taito Takashima
- 97 Seiryū Kotajima
- 98 Ryūsei Gonda
- 2 Kenya Wakatsuki
- 4 Tomoya Mori
- 32 Shō Fukunaga
- 37 Ryō Ishikawa
- 44 Yūma Tongū
- 62 Shūna Hori
- 3 Ryōichi Adachi
- 5 Masahiro Nishino
- 6 Yūma Mune
- 8 Marwin González
- 9 Tomoya Noguchi
- 10 Kōji Ohshiro
- 24 Kōtarō Kurebayashi
- 25 Hō Naitoh
- 30 Taishi Hirooka
- 31 Ryō Ohta
- 34 Seiya Yokoyama
- 36 Tatsuya Yamaashi
- 40 Leandro Cedeño
- 53 Shō Gibo
- 64 Kōsei Ohsato
- 67 Keita Nakagawa
- 0 Haruto Watanabe
- 1 Shūhei Fukuda
- 7 Ryōma Nishikawa
- 27 Kendai Gen
- 33 Ryū Sugisawa
- 38 Ryōto Kita
- 39 Ryōma Ikeda
- 41 Kōdai Sano
- 45 Cody Thomas
- 50 Yūya Oda
- 55 T-Okada
- 61 Tokumasa Chano
- 99 Yūtarō Sugimoto
- 001 Kazuma Satoh
- 003 Yuito Nakata
- 011 Kento Kawase
- 031 Kaito Saiki
- 032 Kaito Iriyama
- 041 Hiroto Suga
- 042 Kaito Ōe
- 043 Riku Miyaguni
- 044 Taketo Ashida
- 130 Taiki Ono
- 034 Kyōichirō Murakami
- 045 Sōta Kawano
- 124 Kyōhei Ueno
- 126 Kazuya Katsuki
- 004 Yamato Hirano
- 020 Takayuki Yamanaka
- 123 Motohide Kinoshita
coaching
- Manager: 78 Satoshi Nakajima
- Head coach: 88 Katsumi Mizumoto
- General fielding coach: 76 Naoyuki Kazaoka
- Pitching coaches: 75 Kazuyuki Atsuzawa, 72 Masafumi Hirai, 73 Rui Makino, 71 Mamoru Kishida
- Batting coaches: 79 Ryūtarō Tsuji, 83 Eiichi Koyano, 85 Shinji Takahashi
- Infield defense/base running coaches: 77 Eishin Soyogi, 80 Shūhei Kojima, 3 Ryōichi Adachi
- Outfield defense/base running coaches: 81 Sō Taguchi, 70 Yūsuke Matsui
- Battery coaches: 87 Toshio Saitoh, 74 Katsuki Yamazaki
coaching
- Manager: 89 Hiroshi Kobayashi
- Patrol head coach: Seiichiro Nakagaki
- Chief development coach: 90 Toshio Haru
- Development coaches: 86 Shintarō Yoshida, 84 Kōhei Suzuki, 91 Daisuke Iida
