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Ryōsuke Hirata
平田良介
Ryōsuke Hirata; 平田良介
	Hirata with the Chunichi Dragons
Chunichi Dragons – No. 79
	Outfielder/Coach
	Born: March 23, 1988 (age 36); Jōtō-ku, Osaka, Japan
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
NPB debut
	August 26, 2006, for the Chunichi Dragons
Last NPB appearance
	September 17, 2022, for the Chunichi Dragons
NPB statistics
Batting average	.268
Home runs	105
RBI	484
Teams
	As player Chunichi Dragons (2006–2022); As coach Chunichi Dragons (2025–present);
Career highlights and awards
	NPB All-Star (2018); Central League Golden Glove Award (2018); Central League Best Nine Award (2015); Central League Monthly MVP (June 2011);
Medals
Men's baseball
Representing Japan
2015 WBSC Premier12
World Baseball Classic

Ryōsuke Hirata (平田良介, Hirata Ryōsuke, born March 23, 1988 in Jōtō-ku, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder. He last played for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Dragons over a 16-year period.

He is currently an outfield defense and baserunning coach for the Dragons.

Career

Hirata attended Osaka Tōin High School and was a member of the team that advanced to the semi-finals of the 2005 national championships. and tied Kazuhiro Kiyohara's record of 5 home runs at the tournament. He hit a total of 70 home runs during his three years of high school. He was drafted by the Dragons in the first round of the 2005 rookie draft.^[1]

In 2015, Hirata was made team captain of the Dragons marking the first time the Dragons had an appointed captain since Tōru Nimura in 1994.^[2]

In 2018, Hirata was selected for the 2018 NPB All-Star game [jp].^[3]

References

^ "2005年中日ドラゴンズ" [2005 Chunichi Dragons] (in Japanese). Retrieved 6 November 2015.
^ "中日平田が来季主将「谷繁監督を胴上げする」" [Chuinichi's Hirata to be next season's captain "I want to lift up Tanishige-kantoku in victory"]. 2015-11-26 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-09-25.
^ "マイナビオールスターゲーム2018 出場者". NPB.jp 日本野球機構 (in Japanese). July 3, 2018.