Toshiaki Imae
| 今江敏晃 Toshiaki Imae 이마에 토시아키 | |||||||||||||||
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 Imae with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | |||||||||||||||
| Samsung Lions – No. 99 | |||||||||||||||
| Infielder / Manager / Coach | |||||||||||||||
| Born: August 26, 1983 Kyoto, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
| April 28, 2002, for the Chiba Lotte Marines | |||||||||||||||
| Last NPB appearance | |||||||||||||||
| June 28, 2019, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .283 | ||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1,682 | ||||||||||||||
| RBI | 726 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 108 | ||||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 32 | ||||||||||||||
| Teams | |||||||||||||||
| As player
As manager
As coach
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| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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Toshiaki Imae (今江 敏晃, Imae Toshiaki; born August 26, 1983 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball former infielder and manager for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Playing career
[edit]Imae won the Most Valuable Player award in both the 2005 and 2010 Japan Series.
He selected 2018 NPB All-Star game.[1]
Coaching career
[edit]On October 17, 2023, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles announced that Imae would be promoted from hitting coach to manager for the 2024 season, replacing Kazuhisa Ishii.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "マイナビオールスターゲーム2018 出場者". NPB.jp 日本野球機構 (in Japanese). August 13, 2018.
- ^ "Baseball: Imae named new Rakuten manager, Fujimoto leaves Hawks". nippon.com. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
External links
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Media related to Toshiaki Imae at Wikimedia Commons
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB.com
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