Akihiro Yano

Akihiro Yano

Catcher
Born: December 6, 1968 (1968-12-06) (age 43) Hirano-ku, Osaka, Japan
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
Professional debut
NPB: August 3, 1991 for the Chunichi Dragons
Last professional appearance
NPB: May 8, 2010 for the Hanshin Tigers
NPB statistics
Batting average	.274
Hits	1347
Home runs	112
RBIs	570
Teams
Chunichi Dragons (1991-1997) Hanshin Tigers (1998-2010)
Last update: December 7, 2010

Akihiro Yano (矢野燿大, Yano Akihiro^?, real name: 矢野輝弘, born December 6, 1968 in Uriwari, Hirano-ku, Osaka, Japan) 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

Hanshin Tigers roster 2011

First squad	00 Kohei Shibata \| 1 Takashi Toritani \| 3 Kentaro Sekimoto \| 4 Hiroki Uemoto \| 5 Keiichi Hirano \| 6 Tomoaki Kanemoto \| 7 Shunsuke \| 8 Ryo Asai \| 9 Matt Murton \| 12 Ryo Watanabe \| 13 Daiki Enokida \| 14 Atsushi Nomi \| 21 Minoru Iwata \| 22 Kyuji Fujikawa \| 24 Shinjiro Hiyama \| 25 Takahiro Arai \| 28 Shinobu Fukuhara \| 31 Wei-Chu Lin \| 32 Ryota Arai \| 34 Yasutomo Kubo \| 39 Shinji Komiyama \| 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi \| 50 Akihito Fujii \| 54 Randy Messenger \| 55 Jason Standridge \| 62 Yusuke Kawasaki \| 67 Craig Brazell \| 69 Issei Morita

Second squad	0 Yamato \| 2 Kenji Johjima \| 15 Masanori Fujihara \| 16 Yuya Ando \| 17 Naohisa Sugiyama \| 18 Kazuhito Futagami \| 19 Ikketsu Sho \| 20 Kazuya Tsutsui \| 27 Takumi Akiyama \| 29 Tatsuya Kojima \| 30 Tomoyuki Kubota \| 33 Ikuro Katsuragi \| 35 Katsuhiko Saka \| 36 Shinta Hifumi \| 37 Masashi Nohara \| 38 Ryohei Hashimoto \| 40 Cheng Kai-Wen \| 42 Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi \| 43 Ken Nishimura \| 44 Yuhei Kai \| 45 Takashi Shimizu \| 46 Naoto Tsuru \| 47 Keiji Uezono \| 48 Shunsuke Ishikawa \| 49 Ryuji Wakatake \| 51 Kodai Sakurai \| 52 Fumihito Haraguchi \| 57 Taichi Okazaki \| 58 Fumiya Araki \| 56 Kenta Abe \| 59 Akira Iwamoto \| 60 Masahiro Nakanishi \| 61 Kenichi Tagami \| 63 Kosuke Kato \| 64 Hirokazu Shiranita \| 65 Daiki Kiyohara \| 66 Haruki Kurose \| 68 Ryunosuke Yokoyama \| 79 Masashi Sajikihara \| 94 Yuya Nohara \| 99 Keisuke Kano

Development players	116 Robert Zarate (pitcher) \| 118 Yutaka Tamaki (pitcher) \| 120 Shintaro Tanaka (infielder) \| 121 Yusuke Kuroda (outfielder) \| 122 Teteuya Sakaguchi (infielder) \| 123 Shuhei Takada (pitcher) \| 124 Koji Yoshioka (pitcher) \| 125 Kosei Fujii (infielder) \| 126 Hiroya Shimamoto (pitcher) \| 127 Masaki Anada (infielder) \| 128 Marcos Vechionacci (infielder)

First squad Coaching	Manager: 72 Akinobu Mayumi \| Head coach: 70 Katsuhiko Kido \| Fielding chief coach: 82 Yoshiaki Oka \| Pitching coaches: 84 Yasuo Kubo, 85 Takashi Yamaguchi \| Hitting coaches: 86 Yutaka Wada, 88 Atsushi Kataoka \| Base coaches: 89 Koji Yamawaki, 92 Teruyoshi Kuji \| Battery coach: 81 Yasuo Yoshida \| Traning coaches: 91 Atsunori Ito, 93 Takao Ebino

Second squad Coaching	Manager: 74 Haruki Yoshitake \| Pitching coaches: 71 Kiyooki Nakanishi, 80 Keiichi Yabu \| Hitting coaches: 76 Hiroshi Yagi, 75 Mitsunobu Takahashi \| Base coaches: 73 Naoyuki Kazaoka, 87 Yutaka Nakamura \| Battery coach: 83 Munehiko Shimada \| Traning coach: 90 Toshiyuki Tsuzuki \| Development cheif coach: 98 Mitsuo Tateishi \| Coaches for development players: 95 Shoji Toyama, 96 So Tsutsui, 97 Yasunori Nagao

Persondata
Name	Yano, Akihiro
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese baseball player
Date of birth	December 6, 1968
Place of birth	Hirano-ku, Osaka, Japan
Date of death
Place of death