Shinichi Sato

Sato joined the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks at age 28, but did not live up to expectations with the team. He was traded to the Yakult Swallows in 1996, and played in 113 games in 1999, marking a .341 batting average. He also broke the team record with 25 consecutive game hits. He was relegated to pinch-hitting duty afterwards, and retired after the 2005 season at age 40. He currently works as a batting coach under Tokyo Yakult Swallows manager Junji Ogawa.

He won a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics before entering the Japanese professional leagues.

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Baseball Reference

Orix Buffaloes current roster

Active roster	1 Hiroyuki Nakajima 2 Takuya Hara 3 Ryoichi Adachi 4 Brent Morel 6 Yūma Mune 7 Yoshio Itoi 8 Shunta 10 Kohji Ohshiro 11 Takahiro Matsuba 12 Kohdai Sano 13 Shunichi Satoh 14 Kazumasa Yoshida 15 Tatsuya Satoh 16 Yoshihisa Hirano 17 Sachiya Yamasaki 18 Mamoru Kishida 19 Chihiro Kaneko 20 Daisuke Kondoh 21 Yuki Nishi 22 Hikaru Ito 23 Torai Fushimi 24 Yūki Miyazaki 26 Daiki Tohmei 27 Daiki Aoyama 28 Satoshi Komatsu 29 Brian Bogusevic 30 Kyohei Iwasaki 31 Eiichi Koyano 32 Brandon Dickson 33 Takuya Shimada 34 Masataka Yoshida 35 Motoki Higa 36 Ban Takagi 37 Kenya Wakatsuki 38 Shūhei Kojima 39 Masahiro Nishino 40 Kohei Suzuki 42 Tony Blanco 43 Seiichi Sakayori 45 Toshio Saitoh 46 Takayoshi Kawabata 47 Tomoyuki Kaida 48 Kohki Saitoh 49 Hirokazu Shiranita 50 Yūya Oda 52 Erik Cordier 53 Yūto Yoshida 54 Yūki Tsutsumi 55 T-Okada 56 Kengo Takeda 57 Nobuyoshi Yamada 58 Ryuta Kadoya 59 Shohei Tsukahara 60 Ken Akama 61 Kyo Okunami 62 Katsuki Yamazaki 63 Issei Nakamura 64 Shota Morimoto 65 Kazuki Kondoh 66 Ryo Yoshida 67 Sena Satoh 68 Yū Suzuki 69 Satoshi Ohyama 97 Daisuke Tanaka 99 Yutaro Sugimoto 120 Takayuki Tsukada (Trainee) 121 Kosuke Akamatsu (Trainee) 124 Satoshi Sonobe (Trainee) 125 Ryo Toda (Trainee)

Coaching staff	Manager 88 Junichi Fukura

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