Los Angeles Angels · SP
Japanese left-hander from Hanamaki Higashi High, the same school as Shohei Ohtani, who pitched for the Seibu Lions before the Mariners, Blue Jays and Astros and joined the Angels in 2025, an All-Star in 2021 and 2025. In October 2025 he posted that he took his family to Matsuhisa in Beverly Hills and ran into his old Seibu bullpen catcher, who now works there as a sushi chef.