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Eri Yoshida
Japanese baseball player
Baseball player
| Eri Yoshida | |
|---|---|
| Pitcher | |
| Born: (1992-01-17) January 17, 1992 (age 32) Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan | |
Eri Yoshida (吉田 えり, Yoshida Eri, born January 17, 1992) is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Japan Islanders of the Empire Professional Baseball League.
She plays as a sidearmknuckleball pitcher. In 2008, at the age of 16, she became the first woman drafted by a Japanese men's professional baseball team.[1]
Baseball career
Yoshida was born in Yokohama, where she taught herself how to throw the knuckleball at the age of 14 after watching Major League Baseball pitcher Tim Wakefield on television.[2][3] She stands 1.55 metres (5 ft 1 in) tall,[4] and her pitches have been clocked at 101 kilometres per hour (63 mph), while her knuckleball pitch velocity measures around 50 mph.[5] As a high school sophomore at Kawasaki-kita S