2022 Baseball Roster

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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

Biography

2021
  • 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
2020
  • 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
Torrance High School 
  • Two-time league champ at Torrance High School
Personal
  • 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

Statistics

Season:
2022

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Historical Player Information

  • 37

    2020Junior

    Infielder
    5'10" 175 lbs
    37
  • 37

    2021Junior

    Infielder
    5'10" 175 lbs
    37
  • 37

    2022Graduate Student

    Infielder
    5'10" 175 lbs
    37