Hirokazu Ibata

Hirokazu Ibata

Chunichi Dragons — No. 6
Infielder
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
Professional debut
NPB: September 8, 1998 for the Chunichi Dragons
NPB statistics (through 2008)
Games	1170
Batting Average	.289
Hits	1282
Home runs	43
Runs batted in	338
Teams
Chunichi Dragons (1998–present)
Last update: December 4, 2008

Hirokazu Ibata (Japanese:井端弘和, born May 12, 1975 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He plays second base for the Chunichi Dragons but is able to play at other positions. He has won 4 Gold gloves for shortstop, 2004-2007.

External links

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com

Chunichi Dragons current roster

First squad	00 Akihiro Maeda \| 2 Masahiro Araki \| 5 Kazuhiro Wada \| 6 Hirokazu Ibata \| 8 Ryosuke Hirata \| 9 Kei Nomoto \| 13 Hitoki Iwase \| 19 Kazuki Yoshimi \| 20 Kenichi Nakata \| 21 Wei-Yin Chen \| 23 Yoshihiro Suzuki \| 24 Hidenori Kuramoto \| 27 Motonobu Tanishige \| 30 Masahiko Morino \| 34 Masahiro Yamamoto \| 41 Takuya Asao \| 42 Tony Blanco \| 43 Takashi Ogasawara \| 44 Masaaki Koike \| 46 Tatsuro Iwasaki \| 60 Junichi Kawahara \| 65 Kenji Oyama \| 67 Akifumi Takahashi \| 69 Masato Kobayashi

Second squad	0 Hiroki Kongoh \| 1 Naomichi Donoue \| 4 Atsushi Fujii \| 7 Dionys Cesar \| 11 Toshiya Okada \| 12 Akinobu Shimizu \| 14 Kenta Asakura \| 16 Ryuya Ogawa \| 17 Susumu Kawai \| 18 Junki Ito \| 22 Daisuke Tanaka \| 25 Ryota Arai \| 26 Sohma Yamauchi \| 28 Shinji Iwata \| 29 Daisuke Yamai \| 31 Hiroki Nakagawa \| 32 Yohei Oshima \| 33 Masafumi Hirai \| 35 Shohei Takashima \| 36 Tetsuya Tani \| 37 Kyohei Iwasaki \| 38 Shinsuke Saitoh \| 39 Koji Mise \| 40 Akira Nishikawa \| 45 Edward Valdez \| 47 Masato Matsui \| 48 Michihisa Sawai \| 49 Maximo Nelson \| 50 Ryoji Nakata \| 51 Issei Nakamura \| 52 Kohei Oda \| \| 53 Shigeo Yanagida \| 54 Kazuyuki Akasaka \| 55 Nobumasa Fukuda \| 56 Yusuke Matsui \| 57 Toshikazu Yoshida \| 59 Kento Yachi \| 61 Yuichi Hisamoto \| 62 Shingo Ito \| 63 Takehiro Donoue \| 64 Ryosuke Oguma \| 68 Shoji Nagamine \| 70 Mitsuru Satoh \| 201 Satoshi Kato \| 202 Ryuichiro Akada \| 211 Takaya Kobayashi \| 213 Joaquin Santamaria \| 214 Candido Jesus

Coaching Staff	Manager 66 Hiromitsu Ochiai \| Second squad Manager 85 Hatsuhiko Tsuji

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Name	Ibata, Hirokazu
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Date of birth	May 12, 1975
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