Akihiro Yano
| Akihiro Yano | |||||||||||||||
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| Catcher / Coach / Manager | |||||||||||||||
| Born: December 6, 1968 Hirano-ku, Osaka, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
| August 3, 1991, for the Chunichi Dragons | |||||||||||||||
| Last NPB appearance | |||||||||||||||
| May 8, 2010, for the Hanshin Tigers | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .274 | ||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1347 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 112 | ||||||||||||||
| RBIs | 570 | ||||||||||||||
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As coach As manager | |||||||||||||||
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| Last updated on: April 23, 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Akihiro Yano (矢野 燿大, Yano Akihiro; real name: 矢野 輝弘, born December 6, 1968) is a former Japanese baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He started his career as the Number 2 Draft pick with the Chunichi Dragons in 1991, and played for the Hanshin Tigers from 1998 until his retirement in 2010.
References
- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from JapaneseBaseball.com
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Career statistics - NPB.jp (in Japanese)