Ken Suzuki (pitcher)

Ken Suzuki (鈴木 健)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11", Weight 187 lb.
• High School Haguro Kogyo High School

• Born April 16, 1969 in Tsuruoka, Yamagata Japan

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Biographical Information

Ken Suzuki pitched two years in Nippon Pro Baseball. He pitched for Nihon Sekiyu in the industrial leagues. He was 1-1 with a 2.70 ERA for the Japanese national team in the 1990 Baseball World Cup, finishing second on the team in ERA, .15 behind Eiichi Ishidaria. He helped Japan to a third-place finish in the 1990 Asian Games. In the 1991 Intercontinental Cup, he allowed 8 hits in 15 innings while fanning 20, going 1-1 with a 2.40 ERA. A third-round pick of the Hiroshima Carp in the 1993 NPB draft, he was 1-7 with a 6.71 ERA that season. Control was his major flaw, as he walked 42 in 57 2/3 IP. He pitched two games for the 1995 Carp, allowing 8 hits and 8 runs in 2 1/3 IP. He also spent part of the year in Taiwan with the China Times Eagles, going 2-5 with a 5.14 ERA. He retired with a 1-7, 7.05 record in 21 games in NPB. Hiroshima released him after 1996 and he was signed by the Yokohama BayStars. He never made out of ni-gun with Yokohama and retired at the end of 1998.

Primary Source: Japan Baseball Daily by Gary Garland