Shun Ishikawa

Shun Ishikawa (石川 駿)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 10", Weight 180 lb.

• School Meiji University
• High School Kitaotsu High School

• Born May 26, 1990 in Kusatsu, Shiga Japan

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Biographical Information

Shun Ishikawa has played in Nippon Pro Baseball and for the Japanese national team.

Ishikawa battled wrist, knee and eye injuries in college. He played for JX Eneos in the industrial leagues, where his health woes continued with appendicitis. In the 2014 Asian Games, he was Japan's main first baseman and also backed up Masahiro Nishino at second base. He hit .375/.474/.688 with 5 runs and 5 RBI in four games while playing error-free defense for the Bronze Medalists. He had 3 hits and 4 RBI against Mongolia. He was 4th on Japan in runs and tied for 4th in RBI.

The Chunichi Dragons took him in the 4th round of the 2014 NPB draft. He had a rough time in 2015, going 2 for 43 with 2 walks in 19 games on the farm. He improved to .227/.333/.340 in the minors in 2016 and got his first at-bats with the big club, going 0 for 5; his first NPB at-bat came against Takahiro Matsuba.

He got his first Central League hit and homer in 2017, the former off Kakeru Ayabe and the latter off Yuya Ando. He was 6 for 17 with the homer for the big club and batted .269/.314/.402 in the minors. He tied Go Kamamoto for 8th in the Western League with 17 doubles. He hit well in limited time on the farm in 2018 (.337/.365/.427 in 34 G) and was 0 for 1 in the CL.

In 2019, he was 1 for 8 with a triple and 3 RBI for the top team and hit a solid .317/.368/.443 with 17 doubles and 44 RBI in the WL. He won the WL batting title (.010 ahead of Tsubasa Tashiro), tied for 8th in doubles, was 5th in RBI, led in OBP (.021 ahead of Ryuhei Kuki) and led in slugging (.021 ahead of Shu Masuda). He won WL MVP.