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4 Dai Dai Otaka

  • Position Infield
  • Height 5-9
  • Weight 170
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Novi, MI
  • Highschool University of Detroit Jesuit

Biography

Career Summary (JHU)
- Started all 21 games at JHU
- .314/.385/.419 - 27 Hits - 16 Runs - 10 RBI - 3 SB - 2 HR
- 2021 All-Centennial Second Team
- 2021 Centennial Conference Co-Gold Glove recipient
2021
- Started all 21 games at SS during the 2021 season
- Hit .314 with a .385 OBP 
- Totaled nine multi-hit contests 
- Reached base in 19 of 21 games
- Went 3-4 with a 2B, 2 RBI & 3 runs scored at Gettysburg on 4/17
- Had four straight games with two hits from 4/24-5/27
- Hit his first Blue Jay HR, a grand slam vs. Trinity (TX) on 5/27 at NCAA Regionals
- Had five hits, including a 3B & a HR in the CWS, driving in three runs in the Blue Jays two contests
Prior to JHU 
- Played in 111 games at Yale, making 104 starts
- David M. Darst Hustle Cup (Yale Baseball Rookie of the Year)
- Helped Yale set all-time record for single-season wins w/ 34 as a Freshman
- Helped Yale lead the nation in fielding percentage (.985)
- Helped Yale lead the nation in double plays/game as a Junior (1.32)
- Committed just 14 errors in over 500 attempts in the field
Personal
- Son of Keiko & Hitoshi Otaka
- Has one sibling, Nana 
- Father, Hitoshi, played water polo at Tokyo University
- Sister, Nana, dances at Michigan
- Twitter account has over 7,000 followers
- Yale SAAC Social Media/Communications Director
- Earned his B.A. in Political Science from Yale

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