About Ryosuke Hirata
Born 1988. Ryosuke Hirata is a Japanese baseball player.
is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder. He last played for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Dragons over a 16-year period.
He is currently an outfield defense and baserunning coach for the Dragons.
Career Hirata attended Osaka Tōin High School and was a member of the team that advanced to the semi-finals of the 2005 national championships. and tied Kazuhiro Kiyohara's record of 5 home runs at the tournament. He hit a total of 70 home runs during his three years of high school. He was drafted by the Dragons in the first round of the 2005 rookie draft.
In 2015, Hirata was made team captain of the Dragons marking the first time the Dragons had an appointed captain since Tōru Nimura in 1994.
In 2018, Hirata was selected for the .
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Ryosuke Hirata was born on 23 March 1988 in Osaka.
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Ryosuke Hirata is a baseball player.
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Ryosuke Hirata is Japanese.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Ryosuke Hirata. https://biography.guide/ryosuke-hirata/
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