Louis Okoye
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Louis Okoye | |||||||||||
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![]() Okoye in 2022 | |||||||||||
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – No. 4 | |||||||||||
Outfielder | |||||||||||
Born: | July 21, 1997|||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||
NPB debut | |||||||||||
March 25, 2016, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | |||||||||||
NPB statistics (through 2020 season) | |||||||||||
Batting average | .219 | ||||||||||
Home runs | 9 | ||||||||||
Runs batted in | 38 | ||||||||||
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Louis Okoye (オコエ 瑠偉, Okoe Rui, born July 21, 1997 in Higashimurayama, Tokyo) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
After the 2017 season, he joined Cañeros de Los Mochis.[1]
Okoye's mother is Japanese and his father is Igbo from Nigeria.[2] His younger sister Monica Okoye is a member of the Japan women's national basketball team which won a silver medal at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
References
- ^ "CAÑEROS ADQUIEREN AL OF JAPONES LOUIS OKOYE". Sitio Oficial de la Liga Mexicana del Pacífico (in Spanish). November 24, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
- ^ Meet Nigerian baseball star who can't speak English, local dialect. Oak TV. January 20, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB stats
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- Japanese people of Nigerian descent
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