# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hirokazu-sawamura
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:38:58.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hirokazu-sawamura"
name: "Hirokazu Sawamura"
slug: "hirokazu-sawamura"
description: "Hirokazu Sawamura  is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants and Chiba Lotte Marines, and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) and 212 pounds (96 kg), he throws and bats right-handed."
tagline: "Japanese professional baseball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sawamura_lotte_54.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1988-04-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.18
  momentum:             1.511681172698122
  historical:           6.211202666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/sawamura_h"
    handle:    "sawamura_h"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/hsawamura19/"
    handle:    "hsawamura19"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirokazu_Sawamura"
    title: "Hirokazu Sawamura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "هيروكازو ساوامورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirokazu_Sawamura"
    title: "Hirokazu Sawamura"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BE%A4%E6%9D%91%E6%8B%93%E4%B8%80"
    title: "澤村拓一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BE%A4%E6%9D%91%E6%8B%93%E4%B8%80"
    title: "澤村拓一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%82%AC%EC%99%80%EB%AC%B4%EB%9D%BC_%ED%9E%88%EB%A1%9C%EC%B9%B4%EC%A6%88"
    title: "사와무라 히로카즈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q866139"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump