Makoto Imaoka
Japanese baseball player
Baseball player
| Makoto Imaoka 今岡 真訪 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hanshin Tigers – No. 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Infielder / Coach | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: (1974-09-11) September 11, 1974 (age 49) Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||||||||
| April 8, 1997, for the Hanshin Tigers | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Last NPB appearance | |||||||||||||||||||||
| June 5, 2011, for the Chiba Lotte Marines | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through 2011 season) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .279 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1,284 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| RBIs | 594 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 122 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| As player As coach | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Makoto Imaoka (今岡 真訪, Imaoka Makoto, real name: 今岡 誠, born September 11, 1974), nicknamed "Makochan",[1] is a former Japanese professional baseball player from Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan.
Career
Imaoka spent several uneventful seasons in the Japanese professional leagues before being chosen as the leadoff batter by Senichi Hoshino, who managed the Hanshin Tigers from 2002 to 2004. Imaoka won the batting title in 2003 with a .340 batting average, and his team won the Central League pennant the same year. He had previously played shortstop and second base, but was converted to third base in 2004. He continued his hitting prowess, and led the league with 147 RBIs in 2005. He fell into a huge slump in 2006, and missed half of the season due to injuries.
He won a silver medal playing for the Japanese national team in the 1996 Summer Olympics before entering the Japanese professional leagues.
Career statistics (through 2011)
| SEASON | TEAM | Squad number | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | AVG |
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| 1997 | T | 7 | 98 | 252 | 18 | 63 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 1 | .250 |
| 1998 | 133 | 471 | 48 | 138 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 44 | 6 | .293 | ||
| 1999 | 128 | 457 | 36 | 115 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 39 | 4 | .252 | ||
| 2000 | 40 | 113 | 8 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .212 | ||
| 2001 | 123 | 400 | 36 | 107 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 40 | 3 | .268 | ||
| 2002 | 122 | 505 | 46 | 160 | 40 | 0 | 15 | 56 | 0 | .317 | ||
| 2003 | 120 | 485 | 67 | 165 | 35 | 1 | 12 | 72 | 1 | .340 | ||
| 2004 | 138 | 572 | 87 | 175 | 29 | 0 | 28 | 83 | 0 | .306 | ||
| 2005 | 146 | 559 | 71 | 156 | 26 | 2 | 29 | 147 | 1 | .279 | ||
| 2006 | 59 | 204 | 16 | 45 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 29 | 1 | .220 | ||
| 2007 | 85 | 323 | 23 | 90 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 0 | .279 | ||
| 2008 | 55 | 169 | 15 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 29 | 0 | .172 | ||
| 2009 | 23 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .133 | ||
| 2010 | M | 2 | 26 | 44 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .227 |
| 2011 | 13 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .130 | ||
| Total | 1309 | 4607 | 476 | 1284 | 211 | 10 | 122 | 594 | 17 | .279 |
References
- ^ "ニックネーム". 千葉ロッテマリーンズ オフィシャルサイト 「マリンフェスタ」特設サイト (in Japanese). Retrieved April 23, 2019.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
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Hanshin Tigers roster
- 00 Javy Guerra
- 13 Suguru Iwazaki
- 14 Yuta Iwasada
- 15 Junya Nishi
- 16 Yuki Nishi
- 17 Koyo Aoyagi
- 19 Kaito Shimomura
- 20 Daichi Moriki
- 21 Takumi Akiyama
- 26 Tsuyoshi Shiiba
- 27 Masashi Itoh
- 28 Yūto Suzuki
- 30 Keito Monbetsu
- 34 Taisei Urushihara
- 35 Hiroto Saiki
- 36 Masumi Hamachi
- 37 Masaki Oyokawa
- 41 Shōki Murakami
- 46 Hiroya Shimamoto
- 47 Takuma Kirishiki
- 48 Hidetoshi Ibaragi
- 49 Kotaro Otake
- 50 Ren Tomida
- 54 Ren Kajiya
- 56 Keisuke Kobayashi
- 63 Yuya Ishiguro
- 64 Hidetaka Okadome
- 65 Atsuki Yuasa
- 66 Junya Tsuda
- 69 Daichi Ishii
- 93 Masaki Iwata
- 99 Jeremy Beasley
- 2 Ryutaro Umeno
- 12 Seishiro Sakamoto
- 39 Yuki Sakaeda
- 57 Kenya Nagasaka
- 59 Kento Fujita
- 68 Hayato Nakagawa
- 95 Yuya Katayama
- 0 Seiya Kinami
- 3 Yusuke Ohyama
- 4 Takahiro Kumagai
- 8 Teruaki Sato
- 25 Ryo Watanabe
- 33 Kento Itohara
- 38 Ryuhei Obata
- 44 Reiji Toi
- 45 Jō Endo
- 51 Takumu Nakano
- 52 Shuya Yamada
- 56 Aoi Momosaki
- 62 Kai Ueda
- 67 Nozomu Takatera
- 94 Fumihito Haraguchi
- 1 Shōta Morishita
- 5 Koji Chikamoto
- 7 Sheldon Neuse
- 32 Kōta Inoue
- 40 Hinase Itsubo
- 43 Yuto Takahama
- 53 Kairi Shimada
- 55 Johan Mieses
- 58 Ukyō Maekawa
- 60 Dan Onodera
- 61 Hiroshi Toyoda
- 97 Kyosuke Noguchi
- 122 Ippei Ogawa (P)
- 123 Kai Matsubara (P)
- 125 Ryō Itō (P)
- 126 Kein Fukushima (OF)
- 127 Riku Kawahara (P)
- 129 Haruto Takahashi (P)
- 130 Ren Satoh (P)
- 131 Jose Betances (P)
- 132 Anthony Martinez (P)
coaching
- Manager: 80 Akinobu Okada
- Head coach: 78 Katsuo Hirata
- Pitching coaches: 86 Yuya Andoh, 90 Tomoyuki Kubota
- Battery coach: 83 Munehiko Shimada
- Hitting coaches: 77 Makoto Imaoka, 73 Eiji Mizuguchi
- Infield defense/base running coaches: 81 Toshifumi Baba, 74 Atsushi Fujimoto
- Outfield defense/base running coach: 96 Sō Tsutsui
coaching
- Manager: 86 Yutaka Wada
- Pitching coaches: 85 Shinobu Fukuhara, 72 Hirotaka Egusa, 89 Ryo Watanabe
- Battery coaches: 87 Katsunori Nomura, 84 Takeshi Hidaka
- Hitting coaches: 91 Hirotoshi Kitagawa, 75 Noriharu Yamazaki
- Infield defense/base running coach: 70 Shuta Tanaka
- Outfield defense/base running coach: 76 Takahito Kudo
- Fielding coach: 71 Hiroki Uemoto
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