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Darvish was born in Habikino, Osaka, to an Iranian father, Farzad Darvishsefad, and a Japanese mother, Ikuyo.[2] His parents met at Eckerd College, a liberal arts school in St. Petersburg, Florida, where his father played for the college soccer team in addition to playing for the Iran national football team.[3][4] His grandfather was a travel agent in Iran, and sent Farzad to the United States in 1977 to attend high school in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he also raced competitively in motocross. |
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In 2004, Darvish gathered national attention for the first time when he pitched a no-hitter in the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (eventually leading his team to the quarter-finals) as a senior for Tohoku High School[5], a baseball powerhouse that has produced players such as Kazuhiro Sasaki and Takashi Saito. He pitched in four consecutive tournaments at Koshien Stadium, twice in the invitational tournament (in the spring of his junior and senior years) and twice in the National High School Baseball Championships (in the summer of his junior and senior years). Over these four tournaments, he pitched 12 games and put up a 7-3 record, striking out 87 in 92 innings with a 1.47 ERA. |
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Darvish was scouted extensively even while he was in junior high by Major League teams such as the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Atlanta Braves. As he entered his senior year of high school, the Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets had all expressed interest in signing him.[6] |
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In the months leading up to the 2004 NPB amateur draft, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, Hiroshima Toyo Carp, Chunichi Dragons, Fukuoka Daiei Hawks and Orix BlueWave had all been considering picking Darvish in the first round. The Fighters, however, were one of the only teams that did not choose to forgo the first round in exchange for signing a college or industrial league player prior to the draft. This enabled the Fighters to land Darvish with their first-round pick.[7] |
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[edit] Professional career |
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[edit] 2005 |
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Darvish received further publicity when he was caught smoking in a pachinko parlor on an off-day during his first Spring Training in 2005, despite not being old enough to legally smoke nor to gamble at the time. The incident prompted his high school to suspend him, and the Fighters to place him under probation for an indefinite period of time and order him to participate in community service.[8] |
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Despite his suspension, Darvish made his professional baseball debut later that season, taking the mound in an interleague game against the Carp on June 15, 2005. He pitched eight-plus innings and got the win, despite giving up back-to-back solo home runs in the ninth.[9] He finished the season with a 5-5 record in 14 starts, throwing 94 1/3 innings with an ERA of 3.53. |
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[edit] 2006 |
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Darvish had a breakout year in 2006, compiling a 12-5 record with 115 strikeouts and a 2.89 ERA.[10][11] In particular, he went 10-0 after May 30, playing an important role in the Fighters' Pacific League title that year and contributing to their first championship since 1961 in the Japan Series over the Dragons. Darvish was chosen to take the mound for the first game of each of the Pacific League playoffs, Japan Series, and the 2006 Asia Series (played between the champions of Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea at the end of the season). Darvish, then 20 years old, became the first pitcher under 21 to start a Japan Series game since 1987. He also won the Asia Series MVP award. |
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[edit] 2007 |
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Darvish was named the Fighters' Opening Day starter in 2007, becoming only the fourth pitcher in franchise history (including the Fighters' years as the Senators and Flyers) to start on Opening Day within three years of graduating high school (the other three pitchers were all Opening Day starters as rookies). He posted a 15-5 record with a 1.82 ERA, limiting hitters to an impressive .174 batting average against and leading the league with 210 strikeouts. While Chiba Lotte Marines starter Yoshihisa Naruse led the league in ERA for the season, beating Darvish out by just 0.003 points, Darvish led the Fighters to their second consecutive league title and won both his first career Eiji Sawamura Award[12] (being the first to meet or exceed guidelines for the award in all seven categories in 14 years) and his first Pacific League MVP award. He also won the Golden Glove and Best Nine awards that year. |
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On August 9, 2007, Darvish acknowledged reports of a relationship with the Japanese actress Saeko in a post-game interview. He also announced that they were planning to get married, and that Saeko was pregnant with their first child. The couple married in November 2007, in what Japanese tabloids reported was a shotgun wedding, and welcomed their first child on March 25, 2008.[13] |
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Darvish made his national team debut in the 2007 Asian Baseball Championship (which also functioned as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2008 Beijing Olympics) against Chinese Taipei on December 3, 2007. Because Japanese law requires that a person holding dual citizenship choose a single nationality before their twenty-second birthday, Darvish had chosen to retain his Japanese citizenship so that he could play for the national team in the Olympics.[14] |
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[edit] 2008 |
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In 2008, Darvish was named the Fighters' Opening Day starter for the second consecutive year, pitching a complete game shutout in that very game (the Fighters won 1-0). Even as his team struggled in the opening months of the season, Darvish continued to rack up wins at a pace that exceeded his own in the previous season. As the year went on, he and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles starter Hisashi Iwakuma emerged as the league leaders in both wins and ERA. On April 10, in their only match-up of the season, neither gave up a single hit through the first five innings. Iwakuma went the distance, throwing just 100 pitches and giving up just one run on three hits; yet Darvish topped this, throwing another complete game shutout on three hits and just 95 pitches in one of the best pitchers' duels of the season.[15] |
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While he did not pitch the way he had hoped in the Olympics, Darvish promptly put up a perfect 5-0 record with a 1.29 ERA and two complete games in the five starts upon returning to the Fighters, leading them to a playoff berth in a heated race against the Marines. While the Fighters failed to make the Japan Series, Darvish took the mound in two playoff games, giving up one run in a complete game win in one and pitching a complete game shutout in another. Although he lost out to Iwakuma (who put up an astonishing 21-4 record) in wins, he finished second in all three Triple Crown categories, finishing the season with a 16-4 record, 1.88 ERA and 208 strikeouts. (It was his second straight year putting up an ERA under 2.00, throwing more than 200 innings, and striking out over 200 hitters despite missing time due to the Olympics.) Regardless, the Sawamura Award was presented to Iwakuma, and Darvish became just the second pitcher to clear the guidelines for the award in all seven categories to not win it (Suguru Egawa was the first in 1982). |
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[edit] International career |
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[edit] 2008 Beijing Olympics |
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Darvish was chosen to play in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a member of the Japanese national team, and took the mound as the staff ace in their first game of the preliminary round against Cuba. However, he was charged with the loss after giving up four runs in 4 0/3 innings[16], causing manager Senichi Hoshino to lose faith in him and scratch Darvish from the semifinal game that he had penciled him in for. Rather, he sent Darvish to the mound only when his performance would have no bearing on Japan's fate in the tournament, starting him in the last game of the preliminary round against the United States and bringing him in to mop up after the U.S. had taken a decisive lead in the bronze medal match. |
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[edit] 2009 World Baseball Classic |
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Darvish was named the staff ace of the Japanese team in the 2009 World Baseball Classic[17], starting in the opening game against China. He pitched four innings, allowing one walk and no hits and striking out three as Japan beat China 4-0. However, pitching in a Major League stadium for the first time in his career, he struggled his second outing of the tournament against South Korea, throwing five innings and giving up three runs (two earned) on four hits and a walk.[18] His first career close-out would follow six days later, when he pitched the final inning of the semifinals against the United States, yielding no runs and a single and striking out two as Japan won 9-4.[19] |
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Darvish came on in relief in the bottom of the ninth inning of the championship game against South Korea with Japan leading 3-2. He struck out his first batter, walked the next two, struck out his next, and then gave up a tying two-out single before finishing the inning with another strikeout. However, Japan scored two runs in the top of the tenth inning to regain a 5-3 lead, and after giving up a leadoff walk in the bottom of the inning, Darvish retired the next three batters (striking out two of them) to win the championship game for Japan.[20] |
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[edit] Pitching style |
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Darvish is a right-handed pitcher who throws from a high three-quarters arm slot (nearly over the top) in a drop-and-drive motion[21] with a lanky frame, listed at 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) and 87 kg (192 lb). He throws a four-seam fastball that usually sits around 147 to 151 km/h (91 to 94 mph) and maxes out at 154 km/h (96 mph) (it was once clocked at 161 km/h (100 mph) at Dodger Stadium) as well as a hard slider with a vicious break.[22] He complements these two with a wide repertoire of secondary pitches, including a two-seam fastball (sometimes described as a shuuto), a curveball, forkball, cutter and changeup. |
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Prior to the 2006 season, Darvish's go-to pitch was a sinker, tending to rely more on his off-speed pitches than his fastball. After encountering shoulder issues because he used the sinker so often, he took the pitch out of his in-game repertoire and replaced it with an equally effective cutter. He has also succeeded in increasing his fastball velocity from year to year. |
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[edit] Career statistics |
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5 5 .500 14 2 1 94.1 97 37 37 7 48 52 3.53 1.54 115 4.06 |
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2006 |
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19 12 5 .706 24 3 2 149.2 128 55 48 12 64 115 2.89 1.28 124 3.62 |
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20 15 5 .750 26 12 3 207.2 123 48 42 9 49 210 1.82 0.83 197 3.57 |
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21 16 4 .800 24 10 2 200.2 136 44 42 11 44 208 1.88 0.90 207 3.90 |
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22 2 1 .667 3 1 0 25.0 14 6 5 2 4 18 1.80 0.72 - 4.48 |
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Career 50 20 .714 91 28 8 677.1 498 190 174 41 209 603 2.31 1.04 - |
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Bold indicates league leader; statistics current as of 19 April 2009 |
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[edit] Other notes |
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• Darvish is also known by the Persian and Arabic name Farid, meaning "unique". |
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• Darvish established a humanitarian fund dedicated to the construction, installment, and maintenance of wells, well pumps, and rainwater storage facilities in developing countries called the "Yu Darvish Water Fund" in February 2007. Darvish has announced his plans to contribute to this fund by donating 100,000 Japanese yen each time he notches a regular season win. The fund is managed by the Japan Water Forum. |
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• Darvish is currently the spokesmodel for DyDo's D-1 canned coffee line, succeeding former teammate Tsuyoshi Shinjo in this role. |
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[[da:Nick Carter]] |
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| Nick Carter tercero | ||
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 En Bangkok, Tailandia, 2006. | ||
| Datos generales | ||
| Origen |
 Jamestown (Nueva York), Estados Unidos | |
| Información artística | ||
| Otros nombres | Nick | |
| Género(s) | Pop Rock | |
| Instrumento(s) | voz, guitarra, batería,teclado. | |
| Período de actividad | 1993 - al presente | |
| Discográfica(s) | Sony BMG, Zomba Recording Corporation/Jive Records | |
| Artistas relacionados | Backstreet Boys Aaron Carter Paris Hilton Aj Mclean Brian Littrell | |
| Web | ||
| Sitio web | NickCarter.com | |
, hasta que en 2004 fue co-protagonista de la película "The Hollow"; animándose así para protagonizar en 2006 su propio reality show "House Of Carters" junto a sus hermanos Aaron Carter, Angel Carter, Bobbie Jean Carter y Leslie Carter. En 2007 también formó parte del reparto de la película "Fast Glass".
Nick fue embajador del año del Delfín en 2007.
Discografía
- Backstreet Boys, 1997
- Backstreet's Back, 1998
- Millennium, 1999
- Black & Blue, 2000
- Greatest Hits: Chapter One, 2001
- Now or Never, 2002
- Never Gone, 2005
- Unbreakable, 2007