Daisuke Matsuzaka

is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who currently plays for the Saitama Seibu Lions  . He has played for the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Seibu Lions ,Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Chunichi Dragons  of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Matsuzaka was selected the MVP of the inaugural and the second World Baseball Classic, and is an Olympic bronze medalist.

He is the first player to have won both a World Series and a World Baseball Classic.

Category:1980 births
Category:Boston Red Sox players
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
Category:Living people
Category:Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:New York Mets players
Category:Sportspeople from Tokyo