Yuu Satoh

is a professional Japanese baseball player. He previously played pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons.

Early career Satō started playing rubber-ball baseball in elementary school. With his high school, Furukawagakuen, he started his freshman year on the bench and reached the best 8 of the Tohoku Regional high school tournament.

He attended Tohoku Fukushi University and started playing league games in his freshman year. In his senior year in a game against Tohoku Institute of Technology, Satō fanned a remarkable 13 batters. He finished with an 11–2 win–loss record with a 1.29 ERA.

On 22 October 2016, Satō was selected as second pick for the Chunichi Dragons at the 2015 Nippon Professional Baseball draft and on 1 December signed a \10,000,000 per year contract with a \70,000,000 sign-on bonus.

Professional career 2016-2017 On 10 May, in a game against the Yokohama DeNA Baystars at Yokohama Stadium, he claimed a debut win throwing 5 innings for 1 earned run becoming the first Dragons rookie pitcher to win on debut since Kenshin Kawakami in .

Satō finished the NPB season having started 4 games going 1–0 in decisions with a 3.67 ERA. The following season, Satō was limited to mostly work out of the bullpen claiming 2 wins, 2 holds and a 5.40 ERA.

2018-Present Satō made his first appearance in April, but was immediately demoted to the farm team after surrendering 3 runs. He would later join the team in June and record 11 consecutive games without an earned run. Satō would end the season having pitched in 42 games with a 1–2 record, 5 saves, 10 holds and a 2.08 ERA. On the farm, Satō would pitch in 24 games, throwing 39 innings for a respectable 3.00 ERA. In the off-season, on October 21, Satō underwent arthroplastic surgery on his right elbow.

International career On October 26, 2018, he was selected Japan national baseball team at the 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series.

Pitching style Satō throws a four-seam fastball that tops out at 151 km/h. He can also throw a forkball that was taught to him by former Seattle Mariners pitcher, Kazuhiro Sasaki.