Takashi Ogasawara (小笠原 孝 born November 29 1976 in Funabashi Chiba Prefecture) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
Athlete