2022 Baseball Roster
Jersey Number 37
Taishi Nakawake
- Position:
- INF
- Ht./Wt.:
- 5-10 / 175
- B/T:
- R/R
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Torrance, Calif.
- Prev School:
- El Camino College
- Major:
- Sociology
2021
El Camino College
- Named Big West tri-Defensive Player of the Year
- Named to the Midseason Brooks Wallace Award Watch List
- Started all 61 games at shortstop in 2021
- Hit .261 (52-for-199) with 10 doubles, 32 RBIs, and 35 runs scored
- Had various hit streaks of nine games, seven games, and 16 home games
- Put up single-game bests for four RBIs, May 21 at CSUB, three hits April 4 at CSUN, and three-hit games on April 18 at Cal Poly and June 4 vs. Nevada
- Started all five postseason games posting five hits, two RBIs, two runs scored, and a double
- Played in all 15 games starting 13
- Hit .195 collecting eight hits with a double, four runs scored, and three RBI
El Camino College
- Played 84 games over two seasons at El Camino College
- In 2018, hit .299 with 50 hits, 34 runs, 1 HR, 23 RBI
- Hit .242 over his JC career with 13 doubles, 65 hits, 30 RBI
- Gold Glove winner
- Two-time league champ at Torrance High School
- Parents are Tiger and Ryoko, who attended Long Beach City College and UCLA
- Oldest of four children - Mina, who plays softball, and Kaiga and Makoto, who each play baseball
- Full name is Taishi (TIE-she) Tiger Nakawake (nah-kuh-WAH-key)
- Has family in Japan and Australia
- Majoring in sociology
- Fan of Ichiro, and the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Enjoys pizza, fishing, the movie Fight Club, the TV show Friends, and the musical stylings of Migos, Young Thug, Lil Baby, and Lil Uzi Vert
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