Motonobu Tanishige
| Motonobu Tanishige | |
|---|---|
 Tanishige with the Chunichi Dragons | |
| Chunichi Dragons – No. 27 | |
| Catcher / Manager | |
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
| NPB debut | |
| April 11, 1989, for the Yokohama Taiyo Whales | |
| NPB statistics (through 2015) | |
| Batting average | .240 |
| Home runs | 229 |
| RBI | 1040 |
| Teams | |
| As Player As Manager
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| Career highlights and awards | |
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| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  Japan
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| Men's Baseball | ||
| World Baseball Classic | ||
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2006 San Diego | Team |
Motonobu Tanishige (谷繁 元信, born December 21, 1970, in Hiroshima) is the current manager for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He was the Dragons' player-manager from 2014 to 2015.[1]
Through 2015, Tanishige has played 27 seasons in NPB. Making his debut for the Taiyo Whales in 1989 at age 18, he played for the Whales/BayStars franchise for 13 years. Moving to the Dragons in 2002, through 2015 he has played for that franchise for 14 seasons. He has played in five Japan Series, and one World Baseball Classic, in 2006, when Japan won the championship.
Tanishge performed well in the 2004 Japan Series (which the Dragons lost 4-games-to-3 to the Seibu Lions), including hitting his first career grand slam.
In 2015, Tanishige broke the NPB record for games played, passing Katsuya Nomura with 3,018[2] — he has since extended the record. Tanishige is second on the career strikeout list with 1,838. With more than 200 career home runs, Tanshige is a member of Meikyukai.
References
- ^ Graczyk, Wayne. "Tanishige to become rare player-manager for Dragons." 19 October 2013: The Japan Times.
- ^ "Dragons’ Tanishige plays in NPB record 3,018th game," Japan Times (July 28, 2015).
External links
- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from JapaneseBaseball.com
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Hiroshima Prefecture
- Japanese baseball players
- Nippon Professional Baseball catchers
- Yokohama Taiyō Whales players
- Yokohama BayStars players
- Chunichi Dragons players
- 2006 World Baseball Classic players
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