Shugo_Maki

Shugo Maki

Shugo Maki

Japanese baseball player


Shugo Maki (牧 秀悟, Maki Shugo, born April 21, 1998) is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infield for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.[2][3]

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Career

Before turning pro

He started playing baseball in the first grade at Nakano Municipal Nakano Elementary School when his older brother joined the King Animals,[4] a baseball team for third grade and above, and started batting fourth in the fall of his second grade year.[5] Since his parents were both working, he spent his days practicing baseball with his grandfather, who had a net set up in the yard where he practiced hitting every day.[4] When he was a student at Nannomiya Junior High School in Nakano, he was a member of Wakaho Little Senior, and although it was a newly established team, it participated in national tournaments in its second and third years.[4][6]

At Matsumoto Daiichi High School, he was a center fielder from the spring of his freshman year[7] and won the prefectural tournament in the spring of his junior year, but lost the first game of both the summer of his sophomore and junior years.[8][9] In high school, two grades above him was Daiki Momose.

In the professional baseball draft held on October 26, 2020, he was selected in the second round by the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.[10] He tentatively signed a contract for 77 million yen and an annual salary of 13 million yen (amount is estimated).[11] His number is 2.

On December 22, 2020, he was awarded the Nakano City Honor Award.

Personal life

His family runs a beauty salon in Nakano.[12]

When he hits a home run, he performs "Destasha," a performance that mimics the pose of YouTuber duo SAWAYAN.[13]

Off 2022, he announced his marriage to a female classmate whom he had been dating since college.[14]


References

  1. 一般社団法人日本野球機構. "セントラル・リーグ表彰 | 2021年 表彰選手 | NPB.jp 日本野球機構". Npb.jp. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  2. 一般社団法人日本野球機構. "Register : Maki,Shugo (YOKOHAMA DeNA BAYSTARS)". Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  3. "牧 秀悟 | 横浜DeNAベイスターズ". www.baystars.co.jp. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  4. "DeNA牧秀悟の原点(1)「俺が打つから」上級生を鼓舞". カナロコ by 神奈川新聞 (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  5. NPBエンタープライズ. "牧 秀悟|トップチーム". 野球日本代表 侍ジャパンオフィシャルサイト (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  6. https://www.facebook.com/asahicom (17 July 2020). "「高校野球が終わりじゃない」 松本第一出身の牧選手:朝日新聞デジタル". 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 May 2023. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help); External link in |last= (help)
  7. "牧 秀悟" [Maki Shugo] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 10 February 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2023.

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