Sho Nakata (中田 翔, Nakata Shō, born April 22, 1989, in Hiroshima), nicknamed "Sho Time",[1] is a Japanese professional baseball player playing for the Chunichi Dragons of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

[2] In 2006, he took part in Japan's National High School Baseball Championship, but he was defeated by his opponent Yuki Saito in his second game.

On November 3, 2006, during a prefectural tournament game, the 17-year-old cracked a home run that was estimated to have traveled 550' out of the park then over a couple houses before landing across the street.

He was five homers behind Eastern League leader Yohei Kaneko despite missing the last two months after knee surgery.

He made it into 22 official games, debuting on May 23 and singling off Ricky Barrett in his first at-bat in Nippon Pro Baseball.

He was third in RBI (behind Takeya Nakamura and Hiroyuki Nakajima), second in doubles (to Kazuo Matsui), tied for third in homers (with Aarom Baldiris, trailing Nakamura by 30 and Nobuhiro Matsuda by 7), tied for 5th in total bases (215, even with Mitsutaka Gotoh), second in sacrifice flies (8, behind Nakajima), third in strikeouts (133, one behind co-leaders Chung-Shou Yang and Nakamura), tied for 6th in double play grounders (12, even with Baldiris) and 9th in slugging (between Goto and Atsunori Inaba).

He is the first Fighters player to hit at least 20 homers over three consecutive seasons since Michihiro Ogasawara (now the 2nd team coach of the Chunichi Dragons).