Yoshinobu Takahashi

Yoshinobu Takahashi

Yomiuri Giants — No. 24
Outfielder
Bats: Left	Throws: Right
Professional debut
April 3rd, 1998 for the Yomiuri Giants
statistics (through 2010 season)
Batting average	.297
Home runs	277
RBI	809
Teams
Yomiuri Giants (1998–present)

Olympic medal record
Men's Baseball
Bronze	Athens 2004	Team Competition

Yoshinobu Takahashi (高橋由伸, born April 3, 1975) is a Japanese professional baseball player from Chiba, Japan. He currently plays right field for the Yomiuri Giants, and is one of the most well-known players in Japanese baseball. He graduated from Keio University.^[1]

A superb contact hitter, he is also known for his exemplary defensive play. He won the golden glove award in 6 consecutive years between 1998 and 2003. Despite his brilliant records, Takahashi has injured himself numerous times over the years going after fly balls. The injuries primarily result from his play style, which is to not give up on fly balls until they hit the ground. His first injury was on September 14, 1999 at a Chunichi Dragons game, where he jumped diagonally against the outfield fence, causing a fractured shoulder bone.

He was chosen as part of the Japanese olympic baseball team for the 2004 Summer Olympics, and contributed to the team's bronze medal.

References

^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Yoshinobu_Takahashi

External links

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com
Yoshinobu Takahashi at Sports-Reference.com

Yomiuri Giants current roster

First squad	00 Takayuki Terauchi \| 0 Saburo Ohmura \| 2 Michihiro Ogasawara \| 6 Hayato Sakamoto \| 7 Hisayoshi Chono \| 8 Yoshitomo Tani \| 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei \| 10 Shinnosuke Abe \| 11 Yuya Kubo \| 12 Takahiro Suzuki \| 13 Yasunari Takagi \| 15 Hirokazu Sawamura \| 17 Shun Tono \| 22 Daisuke Ochi \| 23 Ryota Wakiya \| 24 Yoshinobu Takahashi \| 26 Tetsuya Utsumi \| 28 Norihito Kaneto \| 35 Kentaro Nishimura \| 39 Levi Romero \| 43 Kazunari Tsuruoka \| 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi \| 48 Kenji Yano \| 49 Dicky Gonzalez \| 51 Shigeyuki Furuki \| 53 Kazunari Sanematsu \| 54 Daisuke Fujimura \| 65 Itaru Hashimoto \|

Second squad	25 Josh Fields \| 27 Yuya Ichikawa \| 30 Ryosuke Miyaguni \| 31 Shinji Takahashi \| 32 Tetsuya Matsumoto \| 37 Hideki Sunaga \| 38 Hideki Asai \| 40 Ken Katoh \| 44 Toshimasa Konta \| 45 Takahiko Nomaguchi \| 46 Kyohei Tsuchimoto \| 50 Ryuichi Kajimae \| 52 Hidetoshi Tsuburaya \| 55 Taishi Ohta \| 56 Hiroki Nakazawa \| 57 Yuki Furukawa \| 59 Satoshi Fukuda \| 60 Junpei Ono \| 61 Daisuke Nakai \| 62 Takahisa Ueno \| 63 Atsushi Nakazato \| 64 Masato Kiyashiki \| 66 Daijiro Tanaka \| 67 Keisuke Saito \| 68 Taichi Tanaka \| 69 Tomoya Inzen \| 93 Shoki Kasahara \| 94 Yuki Koyama \| 95 Masumi Hoshino \| 96 Lin Yi-Hao \| 98 Takanobu Tsujiuchi \| 99 Syugo Fujii

Coaching	Manager: 88 Tatsunori Hara \| Second squad manager: 78 Masahiro Kawai

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Name	Takahashi, Yoshinobu
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Date of birth	April 3, 1975
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