Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Shohei Otani (大谷 翔平, Ōtani Shōhei, born July 5, 1994) is a Japanese baseball pitcher who will be playing with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters for the 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball season, he was drafted as the first pick of the Fighters in the 2012 draft.Listed at 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) and 86 kg (190 lb), he has a fastball that has been clocked as high as 160 km/h (99 mph) which is a new Japanese record in the Prefecture Tournament in Summer Koushien. Though his team lost in the semi-final. He mainly throws a solid slider in addition to the fastball.Otani has received interest from numerous teams including the Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers. On October 21, 2012 Otani announced that he would pursue a career in Major League Baseball rather than turn professional in Japan. The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters decided to draft him anyway, knowing that there was a high likelihood he would turn down the draft. After a month-long negotiation between him and the Fighters, Otani announced that he will accept the draft and spend his early career in Japan before a possible MLB move. He will be wearing number 11, which previously belonged to Yu Darvish. The official press conference was held on December 25.He had his debut in 29, March 2013, the season opener, playing as right outfielder.. }
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- Shohei_Otani abstract "Shohei Otani (大谷 翔平, Ōtani Shōhei, born July 5, 1994) is a Japanese baseball pitcher who will be playing with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters for the 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball season, he was drafted as the first pick of the Fighters in the 2012 draft.Listed at 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) and 86 kg (190 lb), he has a fastball that has been clocked as high as 160 km/h (99 mph) which is a new Japanese record in the Prefecture Tournament in Summer Koushien. Though his team lost in the semi-final. He mainly throws a solid slider in addition to the fastball.Otani has received interest from numerous teams including the Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers. On October 21, 2012 Otani announced that he would pursue a career in Major League Baseball rather than turn professional in Japan. The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters decided to draft him anyway, knowing that there was a high likelihood he would turn down the draft. After a month-long negotiation between him and the Fighters, Otani announced that he will accept the draft and spend his early career in Japan before a possible MLB move. He will be wearing number 11, which previously belonged to Yu Darvish. The official press conference was held on December 25.He had his debut in 29, March 2013, the season opener, playing as right outfielder.".