Makoto Kosaka

Kosaka playing for the Yomiuri Giants' farm team in 2008.

Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters – No. 85

Coach

Born: July 2, 1973
Miyagi, Japan

Batted: Left

Threw: Right

NPB debut

April 5, 1997, for the Chiba Lotte Marines

Last NPB appearance

August 12, 2010, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

NPB statistics
(through 2010 season)

Batting average

.251

Hits

1069

RBIs

303

Stolen bases

279

Teams

As Player

Chiba Lotte Marines (1997–2005)
Yomiuri Giants (2006–2008)
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (2009–2010)

As Coach

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (2011–2013)
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2014-present)

Career highlights and awards

1997 Pacific League Rookie of the Year
2x Pacific League stolen base champion (1998, 2000)
4x Pacific League Golden Glove Award (1999-2001, 2005)
2x Japan Series champion (2005), (2008)
5x NPB All-Star (1997, 1999-2001, 2003)

Last update: January 19, 2014

Makoto Kosaka (小坂誠, Kosaka Makoto, born July 2, 1973 in Yamamoto, Miyagi, Japan) is a former Nippon Professional Baseball infielder and the current coach of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.

Makoto Kosaka is well known for his fast running skills (50m in 5.6 seconds and 100m in 11.2 seconds.)

References

Baseball Reference

Pacific League Rookie of the Year Award

1950: Aramaki
1951: Kageyama
1952: Nakanishi
1953: Toyoda
1954: Takuwa
1955: Enomoto
1956: Inao
1957: Kimura
1958: Sugiura
1959: Harimoto
1960: None
1961: Tokuhisa
1962: Ozaki
1963: None
1964: None
1965: Ikenaga
1966: None
1967: Y. Takahashi
1968: None
1969: Arito
1970: M. Sato
1971: Minagawa
1972: Kato
1973: Niimi
1974: Mitsui
1975: Yamaguchi
1976: M. Fujita
1977: Y. Sato
1978: Murakami
1979: Matsunuma
1980: Kida
1981: Ishige
1982: Oishi
1983: Futamura
1984: H. Fujita
1985: Kumano
1986: Kiyohara
1987: Awano
1988: Moriyama
1989: Sakai
1990: Nomo
1991: Hasegawa
1992: Takamura
1993: Sugiyama
1994: Watanabe
1995: Hirai
1996: Kaneko
1997: Kosaka
1998: Ozeki
1999: Matsuzaka
2000: None
2001: Okubo
2002: Shoda
2003: Wada
2004: Mise
2005: Kubo
2006: Yagi
2007: Tanaka
2008: Komatsu
2009: Settsu
2010: Sakakibara
2011: Makita
2012: Masuda
2013: Norimoto
2014: Ishikawa
2015: Arihara

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters current roster

Active roster	1 Dai-Kang Yang 2 Kenshi Sugiya 3 Kensuke Tanaka 4 Yuji Iiyama 5 Brandon Laird 6 Sho Nakata 7 Haruki Nishikawa 8 Kensuke Kondo 9 Takuya Nakashima 10 Yushi Shimizu 11 Shohei Otani 12 Go Matsumoto 13 Yuya Ishii 14 Takayuki Kato 15 Luis Mendoza 16 Kohei Arihara 17 Hiroshi Urano 18 Yuki Saito 19 Hirotoshi Masui 20 Kenta Uehara 21 Hisashi Takeda 22 Yoshiaki Fujioka 23 Ryo Watanabe 25 Naoki Miyanishi 26 Daiki Asama 27 Shota Ohno 28 Hayato Arakaki 29 Kazutomo Iguchi 30 Yohei Kagiya 31 Hiromi Oka 32 Masahiro Inui 33 Hideki Sunaga 34 Mitsuo Yoshikawa 35 Yodai Enoshita 36 Masaru Nakamura 37 Kenji Yano 38 Masaru Takeda 39 Hirotoshi Takanashi 40 Masashi Kanehira 43 Akihiro Hakumura 45 Shota Hiranuma 46 Hayao Segawa 47 Toyoki Tanaka 48 Keisuke Tanimoto 49 Shingo Ishikawa 50 Ruita Usami 51 Naoya Ishikawa 52 Anthony Bass 53 Shota Tatsuta 54 Yutaka Otsuka 55 Chris Martin 56 Tomoya Ichikawa 57 Shogo Yagi 58 Toshitake Yokoo 59 Yuki Yoshida 60 Yuji Arabari 61 Yuya Himeno 62 Yuto Takahama 63 Naoyuki Uwasawa 64 Yuya Taniguchi 65 Kengo Ota 66 Takumi Oshima 67 Ryosuke Kishizato 68 Ryo Ishikawa 70 Tomohito Yoneno

Coaching Staff	Manager 80 Hideki Kuriyama

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