Toshiaki Imae
Appearance
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Infielder / Manager / Coach | |||||||||||||||
Born: Kyoto, Japan | August 26, 1983|||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||||
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
[edit]Media related to Toshiaki Imae at Wikimedia Commons
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB.com
Categories:
- 1983 births
- 2006 World Baseball Classic players
- Chiba Lotte Marines players
- Japanese baseball players
- Living people
- Nippon Professional Baseball third basemen
- Baseball people from Kyoto Prefecture
- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players
- Managers of baseball teams in Japan
- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles managers
- World Baseball Classic players of Japan
- Japanese baseball infielder stubs