Hideaki Wakui

Hideaki Wakui
Wakui with the Chunichi Dragons in 2023
Chunichi Dragons – No. 20
Starting pitcher
Born: (1986-06-21) June 21, 1986
Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
NPB debut
March 29, 2005, for the Seibu Lions
NPB statistics
(through 2025 season)
Win–loss record166-167
Earned run average3.58
Strikeouts2,085
Holds16
Saves37
Stats at Baseball Reference 
Teams
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Representing  Japan
Men's baseball
World Baseball Classic
2009 Los Angeles Team
Asian Baseball Championship
2007 Taichung Team
World Junior Baseball Championship
2004 Taipei Team

Hideaki Wakui (涌井 秀章, Wakui Hideaki; born June 21, 1986) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Seibu Lions / Saitama Seibu Lions, Chiba Lotte Marines, and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

Wakui pitched for the Japanese national team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2009 World Baseball Classic.

His wife is a Japanese model Moe Oshikiri.