Motohiro Shima

Shima with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – No. 37

Catcher

Born: December 13, 1984

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

NPB debut

March 28, 2007, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

NPB statistics
(through 2014 season)

Batting average

.253

Home runs

RBI

212

Teams

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (2007–present)

Career highlights and awards

6× NPB All-Star (2007, 2010-2014)
2× Mitsui Golden Glove Award (2010, 2013)
2× Best Nine Award (2010, 2013)
1× Japan Series champion (2013)

Medal record

Men's baseball
Representing Japan
2015 WBSC Premier12
	2015 Tokyo	Team

Motohiro Shima (嶋基宏, born December 13, 1984 in Kaizu, Gifu) is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

External links

Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)
NPB.com

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles current roster

Manager	99 Masataka Nashida

First squad coaching	80 Toru Nimura 88 Takahiro Ikeyama 83 Koichi Isobe 92 Tsuyoshi Yoda 72 Ryoji Moriyama 97 Kenji Furukubo 74 Yasunaga Makishi 76 Osamu Yonemura

Second squad manager/coaching	89 Yosuke Hiraishi 79 Tomoyoshi Oishi 96 Ryo Kawano 93 Daisuke Kusano 75 Shinichiro Koyama 86 Kento Sugiyama 81 Yuichi Yanagisawa 78 Mitsuo Tateishi 87 Tadaharu Sakai 84 Makoto Moriyama

First squad	0 Kenta Kurihara 1 Yuki Matsui 3 Jonny Gomes 4 Mitsutaka Gotoh 6 Kazuya Fujita 7 Kazuo Matsui 8 Toshiaki Imae 11 Takahiro Shiomi 12 Ken Ray 14 Takahiro Norimoto 17 Jake Brigham 22 Kenji Tomura 23 Ryo Hijirisawa 24 Masayoshi Fukuda 25 Akihisa Makida 26 Norihito Kaneto 27 Takero Okajima 29 Shota Koseki 30 Kohei Hasebe 31 Manabu Mima 32 Shintaro Masuda 33 Ginji 34 Yoshitaka Muto 35 Hiroaki Shimauchi 37 Motohiro Shima 40 Zelous Wheeler 41 Koji Aoyama 42 Japhet Amador 43 Kam Mickolio 49 Radhames Liz 55 Tetsuro 58 Wataru Karashima 59 Yasunori Kikuchi 64 Hiroyuki Fukuyama 67 Tatsuro Iwasaki 68 Ryohei Kawamoto

Second squad	00 Toshihito Abe 2 Ryota Yoshimochi 5 Eigoro Mogi 9 Louis Okoye 13 Kodai Hamaya 15 Fumiya Ono 16 Yudai Mori 20 Tomohiro Anraku 21 Yoshinao Kamata 28 Ryota Ishibashi 36 Yasuhito Uchida 38 Yusuke Nishimiya 39 Takahiro Shimotsuma 44 Yuichi Adachi 45 Takashi Kawai 46 Ryota Ito 47 Takahito Otsuka 48 Tadashi Ishimine 50 Takahiro Irino 51 Luciano Fernando 52 Masahi Kato 53 Kazutomo Aihara 54 Takaaki Yokoyama 56 Taishi Nakagawa 57 Takumi Miyoshi 60 Yuri Furukawa 61 Kim Mu-young 62 Susumu Aizawa 63 Rintaro Kitagawa 65 Kengo Horiuchi 66 Ikki Murabayashi 69 Soma Yamauchi

Development	001 Hiroshi Katayama 005 Hirohito Shimai 024 Kazuya Takahori 036 Aoi Enomoto 051 Takahiro Kakizawa 090 Ryuta Konno 121 Sho Miyagawa 122 Takumaru Yaoita 123 Hiroki Ohsakaya 126 Takumi Deguchi 127 Hiroki Yamada 143 Sung Chia-Hao

Japan roster – 2015 WBSC Premier12

3 Nobuhiro Matsuda 5 Shingo Kawabata 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Akira Nakamura 8 Ryosuke Hirata 9 Takuya Nakashima 10 Yuki Matsui 11 Tomoyuki Sugano 13 Sho Nakata 14 Takahiro Norimoto 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 16 Shohei Otani 18 Kenta Maeda 19 Hirotoshi Masui 21 Yuki Nishi 22 Yudai Ono 23 Tetsuto Yamada 24 Yasuaki Yamasaki 25 Yoshitomo Tsutsugo 27 Ginjiro Sumitani 29 Yasuhiro Ogawa 30 Shota Takeda 35 Kazuhisa Makita 37 Motohiro Shima 52 Yuhei Nakamura 55 Shogo Akiyama 60 Takeya Nakamura

Manager 90 Hiroki Kokubo

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