Mitsuru Manaka

Tokyo Yakult Swallows – No. 77

Outfielder / Manager

Born: January 6, 1971
Tochigi, Tochigi, Japan

Batted: Left

Threw: Left

Professional debut

NPB: September 3, 1993 for the Yakult Swallows

Last professional appearance

NPB: October 12, 2008 for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows

NPB statistics
(through 2002)

.286

1122

Teams

As player

As manager

As coach

Career highlights and awards

Last update: 19 January 2014

Mitsuru Manaka (真中満, born January 6, 1971 in Tochigi, Tochigi, Japan) is a former Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder. On October 8, 2014, he was named manager of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, replacing Junji Ogawa. Manaka had previously been managing the Swallows' farm team.^[1]

References

Tokyo Yakult Swallows current roster

0 Wataru Hiyane 2 Keiji Obiki 3 Naomichi Nishiura 4 Wladimir Balentien 5 Shingo Kawabata 7 Hiroyasu Tanaka 8 Shinichi Takeuchi 9 Yasushi Iihara 10 Ryosuke Morioka 11 Yoshinori 12 Taichi Ishiyama 14 Ryo Akiyoshi 15 Kyohei Muranaka 16 Ryohei Kiya 17 Yoshihisa Naruse 18 Toshihiro Sugiura 19 Masanori Ishikawa 20 Tetsuya Yamamoto 21 Kenichi Matsuoka 22 Shingo Takeshita 23 Tetsuto Yamada 24 Takahiro Araki 25 Shohei Tateyama 26 Kentaro Kyuko 28 Masahiko Tanaka 29 Yasuhiro Ogawa 30 Akihisa Nishida 31 Yuichi Matsumoto 32 Ren Kazahari 33 Kazuhiro Hatakeyama 34 Tony Barnette 35 Kengo Tagawa 36 Ryuhei Kawakami 37 Yudai Hoshino 38 Tetsuya Terada 39 Yusaku Nakamoto 40 Masato Furuno 41 Yuhei 42 Yuki Shichijo 43 Masaya Emura 44 Keiji Iwahashi 45 Hiroaki Dohi 46 Ryota Yachi 47 Katsuki Akagawa 49 Tatsuya Oba 50 Tsuyoshi Ueda 51 Ryota Fujii 52 Yuhei Nakamura 53 Orlando Román 54 Masato Nakazawa 55 Koji Yamakawa 56 Nobuyuki Okumura 57 Jun Matsui 58 Logan Ondrusek 59 Takahiro Imanami 60 Masayoshi Miwa 61 Yuto Koyama 62 Takeaki Tokuyama 63 Suguru Ino 64 Nariaki Kawasaki 65 Izumi Hara 66 Nagisa Arakaki 67 Ryo Hirai 68 Hirofumi Yamanaka 70 Ryosuke Yagi 85 Lastings Milledge 91 Hugo Kanabushi 111 Shogo Nakashima (Trainee) 138 Yuji Nakane (Trainee)

Manager and head coach 77 Mitsuru Manaka

Nippon Professional Baseball managers by team
Central League	Pacific League
Motonobu Tanishige (Chunichi Dragons)	Tsutomu Ito (Chiba Lotte Marines)
Yutaka Wada (Hanshin Tigers)	Kimiyasu Kudoh (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks)
Koichi Ogata (Hiroshima Toyo Carp)	Hideki Kuriyama (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters)
Mitsuru Manaka (Tokyo Yakult Swallows)	Hiroshi Moriwaki (Orix Buffaloes)
Kiyoshi Nakahata (Yokohama DeNA BayStars)	Norio Tanabe (Saitama Seibu Lions)
Tatsunori Hara (Yomiuri Giants)	Hiromoto Okubo (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles)
Defunct teams: