Yuta Nakamura

{{short description|Japanese baseball player}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Yuta Nakamura

| image = 67nakamura-2.jpg

| image_size = 250

| team = Saitama Seibu Lions

| number = 58

| position = Pitcher

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|8|31}}

| birth_place = Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| debutleague = NPB

| debutdate = May 3

| debutyear = 2017

| debutteam = Hiroshima Toyo Carp

| finalleague =

| finaldate =

| finalyear =

| finalteam =

| statyear = 2021 season

| statleague = NPB

| stat1label = Win–loss record

| stat1value = 11–15

| stat2label = Earned run average

| stat2value = 4.73

| stat3label = Strikeouts

| stat3value = 132

| teams =

• Hiroshima Toyo Carp ({{npby|2017}}–{{npby|2023}})
• Saitama Seibu Lions ({{npby|2024}}–present)

| highlights =

}}

{{nihongo|Yuta Nakamura|中村 祐太|Nakamura Yuta|born August 31, 1995}} is a Japanese baseball pitcher for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball.

Nakamura attended {{ill|Kanto Daiichi High School|ja|関東第一高等学校}}, and was selected by the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in the 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball draft as the team's fifth pick. He pitched in the Western League for three full seasons until making his NBP debut with the Carp in 2017. Since his first-team debut in 2017, Nakamura has split time between the Central League's Carp and the Western League's Carp.{{cite news |title=Nakamura, Yuta |url=https://npb.jp/bis/eng/players/71075139.html |access-date=February 8, 2022 |publisher=Nippon Professional Baseball}}{{cite news |title=Yuta Nakamura |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=nakamu002yut |access-date=February 8, 2022 |publisher=Baseball Reference}}

On December 8, 2023, Nakamura was nominated and transferred to the Saitama Seibu Lions in the NPB active player draft.{{Cite web |title=現役ドラフト結果 |url=https://c.npb.jp/geneki_draft/2023/ |archive-date= |access-date=December 8, 2023 |website= |publisher=Nippon Professional Baseball}}