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is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. A sidearm pitcher, Tateyama relied chiefly on a sinking fastball that averaged 87–88 mph and a curveball in the low 70s. He also featured two other off-speed pitches, a changeup (74–78 mph) and a screwball (68–71 mph), that were used mostly against left-handed batters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brooks Baseball · Home of the PitchFX Tool – Player Card: Yoshinori Tateyama )〕 The screwball is thrown with a "Vulcan" grip. He was one of only two relief pitchers to have thrown even a single screwball in the 2012 MLB season.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PitchFX Leaderboards )〕 While his strikeout totals were average, he got hitters out with his control (career 2.11 BB/9 in NPB). On November 30, 2010 Tateyama signed as a free agent with the Texas Rangers.〔(Rangers sign Japanese reliever Yoshinori Tateyama )〕 After starting 2011 in the minor leagues, he was called up to the Rangers on May 23, 2011 and made his major league debut on May 24, 2011. Koji Uehara was his teammate in high school. In that time, Tateyama was an ace pitcher and Uehara was an outfielder. In the 2011–2012 offseason, the Rangers signed Japan's best starting pitcher Yu Darvish to a 5-year deal. Tateyama and Darvish were previously teammates for 5 seasons on the Nippon-Ham Fighters. He became a free agent on October 30, 2012 when the Rangers declined his 2013 option. He was re-signed by Texas on December 20, 2012. He was then released in March 2013. He was traded to the New York Yankees in June 2013. In May 2014 the Yankees released Tateyama,〔(Yankees release Yoshinori Tateyama )〕 and he returned to Japan to sign with the Hanshin Tigers on June 25, 2014.〔(建山義紀選手入団会見 (Tateyama signing press conference) )〕 On November 1, 2014 he announced his retirement from professional baseball〔(Baseball: Tigers right-hander Tateyama to retire )〕 after making 8 appearances for the Tigers.〔(Player Profile: Yoshinori Tateyama )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yoshinori Tateyama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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