Ayami Sato

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is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the Canadian Baseball League (CBL). She is also a starting pitcher for the Japan women’s national baseball team, with which she has won six gold medals at the Women's Baseball World Cup.

Sato is considered by many to be the best female pitcher, and by some the best female baseball player, in the world. She can throw close to 80 miles an hour. Her curveball was clocked at 2,583 revolutions per minute. Sato has won six gold medals for her home country. She is the only women's baseball player to have won three consecutive MVP awards. Provided by Wikipedia