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He was selected 2018 NPB All-Star game [jp] .

On August 20, 2018, he was selected 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series. But, on October 9, he canceled due to condition.

He was selected Japan national baseball team at the 2015 WBSC Premier12 and 2017 World Baseball Classic.

Sugano is a 6 ft 1 in (186 cm), 210 lb (95 kg) right-handed pitcher. Although Sugano threw 98 mph in college, his fastball velocity was down since the beginning of his professional career. The Giants confirmed that he had ligament damage in his right elbow during the 2014 season. After rehab he set a pro career-high 96 mph in 2016.

After long consideration and deliberation with his family, Sugano finally announced on November 21 his decision to turn down the Fighters' offer and instead take the year off and re-enter the 2012 draft. "I may be taking a longer route (to becoming a professional ballplayer), but my childhood dream (of playing for the Giants) was stronger," he said, hinting at his intention to wait until the Giants win the rights to negotiate with him. He also mentioned that he wasn't as upset about not being informed by the Fighters ahead of time that they might select him, but rather because they promised they wouldn't select him. Only two players in NPB history have turned down the Fighters: Shinji Kuroda in 1976 and Ikuo Takayama in 1980.

Sugano was selected as the Giants' first pick in 2012.

Due to his performance as pitcher for Tokai University (37-4, 0.57 ERA), Sugano was a top pitching prospect for the October 2011 draft. Prior to the draft selection, he declared his desire to join the Yomiuri Giants and play under the guidance of his uncle, the present Giants manager Tatsunori Hara. It therefore came as a shock when the Fighters also decided to select him as their first pick. The two teams fought it out via lottery, but the Fighters drew the lucky straw in the end, to the surprise and disappointment of Manager Hara and the Giants for they had assumed no other team would dare pick Sugano.

In 2010, he set a career-high 157 km/h (98 mph) in college.

Tomoyuki Sugano (菅野 智之 , Sugano Tomoyuki, born October 11, 1989, in Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.