Akihiro Yano

Hanshin Tigers – No. 88

Catcher / Coach

Born: December 6, 1968
Hirano-ku, Osaka, Japan

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

NPB debut

August 3, 1991, for the Chunichi Dragons

Last NPBA appearance

May 8, 2010, for the Hanshin Tigers

NPB statistics

Batting average

.274

Hits

1347

Home runs

112

RBIs

570

Teams

As player

Chunichi Dragons (1991-1997)
Hanshin Tigers (1998-2010)

As coach

Hanshin Tigers (2016-present)

Last update: January 10, 2016

Yano playing for Japan in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Akihiro Yano (矢野燿大, Yano Akihiro, real name: 矢野輝弘, born December 6, 1968 in Uriwari, Hirano-ku, Osaka, Japan) is a former Japanese baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He started his career as the Number 2 Draft pick with the Chunichi Dragons in 1991, and played for the Hanshin Tigers from 1998 until his retirement in 2010.

References

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com

Hanshin Tigers roster

First squad	00 Kohei Shibata 0 Yamato 1 Takashi Toritani 2 Fumiya Hojo 4 Hiroki Uemoto 5 Mauro Gómez 7 Tsuyoshi Nishioka 8 Kosuke Fukudome 9 Shun Takayama 13 Daiki Enokida 14 Atsushi Nomi 16 Yūya Andō 17 Yuta Iwasada 19 Shintaro Fujinami 20 Kazuya Tsutsui 21 Minoru Iwata 25 Taiga Egoshi 26 Hiroaki Saiuchi 27 Takumi Akiyama 28 Shinobu Fukuhara 32 Ryota Arai 34 Kazuya Takamiya 36 Matt Hague 38 Marcos Mateo 39 Shinji Komiyama 40 Kazunari Tsuruoka 41 Akifumi Takahashi 44 Ryutaro Umeno 45 Takashi Shimizu 49 Ryota Imanari 51 Hayata Ito 54 Randy Messenger 56 Ryoma Matsuda 59 Akira Iwamoto 60 Masahiro Nakatani 64 Kentaro Kuwahara 66 Kazuhito Futagami 67 Suguru Iwazaki 68 Shunsuke 69 Hiroya Shimamoto 98 Rafael Dolis 99 Keisuke Kanoh

Second squad	12 Seishirō Sakamoto 15 Yuya Yokoyama 24 Shintaro Yokota 29 Tatsuya Kojima 30 Tsuyoshi Ishizaki 33 Naoto Nishida 35 Katsuhiko Saka 37 Yuto Morikoshi 42 Daichi Takeyasu 43 Kōki Moriya 46 Naoto Tsuru 47 Shoya Yamamoto 48 Kazuyuki Kaneda 50 Kōyō Aoyagi 52 Shinya Azuhata 55 Naomasa Yokawa 57 Taichi Okazaki 58 Fumiya Araki 61 Atsushi Mochizuki 62 Kai Ueda 63 Yutaro Itayama 65 Ryosuke Ogata 92 Kazuo Itoh 95 Nelson Perez

Development players	116 Kōjirō Tanabo (pitcher) 118 Travis (pitcher) 123 Shinta Hifumi (outfielder) 124 Fumihito Haraguchi (catcher)

First squad coaches	Manager: 6 Tomoaki Kanemoto Head coach: 70 Nobuhiro Takashiro Fielding and base coach: 78 Katsuo Hirata Strategy coach and battery coach: 88 Akihiro Yano Pitching coaches: 90 Isao Koda, 73 Satoru Kanemura Hitting coaches: 81 Atsushi Kataoka, 79 Osamu Hamanaka, 80 Tom O'Malley Fielding and base coach for infielders: 71 Teruyoshi Kuji Fielding and base coach for outfielders: 87 Yutaka Nakamura Training coach: 91 Atsunori Itoh

Second squad coaches	Manager: 31 Masayuki Kakefu Fielding and base coach: 83 Hideo Furuya Pitching coaches: 84 Yasuo Kubo (Head), 72 Ken Takahashi Strategy coach: 77 Makoto Imaoka Hitting coach: 96 Sō Tsutsui Fielding and base coaches: 74 Atsushi Fujimoto, 76 Keiichi Hirano Battery coach: 82 Katsuhiko Yamada

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