Shuta Tanaka
Shuta Tanaka | |
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Hanshin Tigers – No. 70 | |
Infielder / Coach | |
Born: (1977-02-23) February 23, 1977 (age 47) Yokohama, Japan | |
Bats: Left Throws: Right | |
NPB debut | |
September 21, 1995, for the Hanshin Tigers | |
NPB statistics (through 2008 season) | |
Batting average | .230 |
Hits | 200 |
RBIs | 52 |
Teams | |
As player As coach
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Last updated on: 2 February 2021 |
Shuta Tanaka (田中 秀太, Tanaka Shūta, simply called Shuta (秀太)) is a retired Japanese professional Nippon Professional Baseball player.
Biography
Early years
Shuta Tanaka was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan and lived there until his elementary school days. He moved to Kitakyushu, Fukuoka because his father Hisayuki became the manager of Nissan Kyushu Baseball Team. Then he entered Kumamoto Technical High School, thus there are biographical notes in the players list which shows that he is from Kumamoto.
He played in the 66th National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament held in 1994, then was drafted by the Hanshin Tigers at 3rd.
Professional career
Shuta played for the Hanshin Tigers until 2009. He recorded 200 hits of 871 at bats (average.233) and batted in 52 runs. He could not play in the major level in 2009 and announced on September 18 that he decided to retire the player in August with consultations with his family and Atsushi Kataoka. His last play was the Western League game against the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks at Hanshin Koshien Stadium on September 23, in which he got 2 hits. Over 7,000 specters attended to see his last play.
After retiring he is a scout in the Kyushu region for the Hanshin Tigers.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from JapaneseBaseball.com
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- 14 Yuta Iwasada
- 15 Junya Nishi
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- 17 Koyo Aoyagi
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- 20 Daichi Moriki
- 21 Takumi Akiyama
- 26 Tsuyoshi Shiiba
- 27 Masashi Itoh
- 28 Yūto Suzuki
- 29 Haruto Takahashi
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- 34 Taisei Urushihara
- 35 Hiroto Saiki
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- 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
- 92 Riku Kawahara
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- 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
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- 45 Jō Endo
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- 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 Maegawa
- 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)
- 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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