Yoshiyuki Kamei (baseball)
| Yoshiyuki Kamei | |||||||||||||||
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 Kamei with the Yomiuri Giants | |||||||||||||||
| Yomiuri Giants – No. 79 | |||||||||||||||
| Outfielder / Coach | |||||||||||||||
| Born: July 28, 1982 Yamatokōriyama, Nara, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Bats: Left Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
| July 9, 2005, for the Yomiuri Giants | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through 2021 season) | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .257 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 101 | ||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1,069 | ||||||||||||||
| RBI | 462 | ||||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 61 | ||||||||||||||
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As coach
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Yoshiyuki Kamei (亀井 善行, Kamei Yoshiyuki, born July 28, 1982 in Yamatokōriyama, Nara, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
He was selected Japan national baseball team at the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
During a brief stint in the 2010–11 Australian Baseball League season he played for the Melbourne Aces and although he did not qualify for any statistical leaders, he has the highest single season slugging (.859) and OPS (1.359) for any player with more than 50 at-bats (64).
On November 16, 2018, he was selected Yomiuri Giants roster at the 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series exhibition game against MLB All-Stars.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "8日の「2018日米野球」参加メンバー決まる". 読売巨人軍公式WEBサイト (in Japanese). November 16, 2018. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
External links
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- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
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- 1982 births
- Chuo University alumni
- Living people
- Melbourne Aces players
- Nippon Professional Baseball coaches
- Nippon Professional Baseball first basemen
- Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
- Baseball people from Nara Prefecture
- Yomiuri Giants players
- 2009 World Baseball Classic players
- Honolulu Sharks players
- Japanese expatriate baseball players in the United States
- Japanese expatriate baseball players in Australia
- World Baseball Classic players of Japan
- Japanese baseball outfielder stubs