Kazunari Abe
Kazunari Abe (阿部 和成)
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 0", Weight 156 lb.
- High School Omuta High School
- Born May 19, 1989 in Omuta, Fukuoka Japan
Biographical Information[edit]
Pitcher Kazunari Abe began his Nippon Professional Baseball career in 2011.
He was taken by the Chiba Lotte Marines in the 4th round of the 2007 NPB draft. He had a 2-4, 3.29 record the next summer in ni-gun but struggled his next two years on the farm (5.00 in 2009, 6.56 in 2010). He improved in 2011, making the minor league All-Star game and getting called up to the big club for the first time. He was 0-2 with a 12.96 ERA, 17 hits and 7 walks in 8 1/3 IP for the Marines in NPB that year, a rough debut.
Abe was 0-2 with a 3.95 ERA in six games in 2012 and 2-0, 4.22 in five games in 2013. He spent all of 2014 with Chiba Lotte's farm club and struggled in the minors (5-9, 6.27, possibly tied for the loss lead in the Eastern League). He returned to the Marines in NPB during 2015.
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