Norifumi Nishimura

Norifumi Nishimura
西村徳文

Orix Buffaloes – No. 77

Infielder, Outfielder, Manager

Born: January 9, 1960
Kushima, Miyazaki

Batted: Switch

Threw: Right

NPB debut

1982, for the Chiba Lotte Marines

Last NPB appearance

1997, for the Chiba Lotte Marines

NPB statistics

Batting average

.272

Hits

1,298

Runs batted in

326

Teams

As player

Lotte Orions/Chiba Lotte Marines (1982–1997)

As manager

Chiba Lotte Marines (2010–2012)

As coach

Chiba Lotte Marines (1998–2009)
Orix Buffaloes (2016–present)

Career highlights and awards

1990 batting title

Last update: 24 November 2009

Norifumi Nishimura (西村徳文, Nishimura Norifumi, born January 9, 1960 in Kushima, Miyazaki) is a former Nippon Professional Baseball player and current manager. Nishimura spent the entirety of his 16-year playing career with the Chiba Lotte Marines. After retiring, he coached for the team until being named the successor to former Marines-manager Bobby Valentine in late 2009.

External links

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Bobby Valentine	Chiba Lotte Marines manager 2010–2012	Succeeded by Tsutomu Ito

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 25 Pat Misch 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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