Louis Okoye
Appearance
Louis Okoye | ||||||||||||
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Yomiuri Giants – No. 50 | ||||||||||||
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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Medals
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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 Yomiuri Giants 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
[edit]- ^ "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
[edit]- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB stats
Categories:
- 1997 births
- Living people
- Cañeros de Los Mochis players
- Japanese people of Nigerian descent
- Sportspeople of Nigerian descent
- Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
- People of Igbo descent
- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players
- Yomiuri Giants players
- Japanese expatriate baseball players in Mexico
- Baseball people from Tokyo
- People from Higashimurayama, Tokyo
- Japanese baseball outfielder stubs