title: Yasunobu Okugawa
text: # Yasunobu Okugawa
  
  Yasunobu Okugawa (奥川 恭伸, Okugawa Yasunobu, born April 16, 2001) is a professional Japanese baseball pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
  
  ## Career
  
  On October 30, 2022, it was announced that Okugawa would require Tommy John surgery, but he would later decide to bypass surgery and rehab the injury instead.
  
  