Ryoji Aikawa

Aikawa with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows

Yomiuri Giants – No. 23

Catcher

Born: July 11, 1976

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

debut

August 21, 1999, for the Yokohama BayStars

Teams

Ryoji Aikawa
Medal record

Representing Japan
Men's Baseball
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	Team
World Baseball Classic
	2006 San Diego	Team

Aikawa in 2011

Ryoji Aikawa (相川亮二, Aikawa Ryōji, born July 11, 1976 in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan) is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays catcher for the Yomiuri Giants.

Aikawa was a member of the Japanese national baseball team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic and 2013 World Baseball Classic. He also won the Bronze medal at the 2004 Olympic Games.

Aikawa is a Christian. Aikawa has spoken about his faith saying, "There are always hurdles and obstacles to overcome in daily life, but knowing God is there helps me get through difficult times. I wish more Japanese people would find Jesus Christ as I have, and I am thankful I have been able to play professional baseball for such a long time."^[1]

References

↑ "Still on the Diamond".

External links

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com
Japan Baseball Daily

Yomiuri Giants current roster

First squad	2 Ryota Wakiya 5 Garrett Jones 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Hisayoshi Chono 8 Yasuyuki Kataoka 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei 11 Luis Cruz 12 Takahiro Suzuki 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 19 Tomoyuki Sugano 20 Scott Mathieson 22 Seiji Kobayashi 25 Shuichi Murata 36 Daisuke Nakai 37 Seiji Tahara 40 Ken Katoh 44 Taishi Ohta 45 Nobutaka Imamura 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi 49 Aaron Poreda 50 Chiaki Tone 51 Takehiro Donoue 53 Genki Kawano 54 Hayato Takagi 58 Soichiro Tateoka 67 Mizuki Tsuchida 68 Daiki Yoshikawa 90 Kazuto Taguchi 92 Kentaro Taira

Second squad	00 Takayuki Terauchi 0 Daisuke Fujimura 10 Shinnosuke Abe 13 Ryota Katsuki 17 Kan Otake 18 Toshiya Sugiuchi 21 Toshiki Sakurai 23 Ryoji Aikawa 26 Tetsuya Utsumi 27 Kazunari Sanematsu 30 Ryosuke Miyaguni 31 Tetsuya Matsumoto 32 Itaru Hashimoto 33 Abner Abreu 35 Kentaro Nishimura 38 Kazuma Okamoto 39 Miles Mikolas 42 Leslie Anderson 43 Shinnosuke Shigenobu 46 Hirotaka Yonahara 48 Toshiyuki Yanuki 52 Shingo Usami 56 Yasuhiro Yamamoto 57 Katsuhiko Kumon 59 Yuki Koyama 60 Susumu Ohrui 61 Ren Wada 62 Yuki Egarashi 64 Masato Kiyashiki 65 Harutomo Tsuji 66 Atsushi Kita 69 Takuya Matsuzaki 91 Kota Nakagawa 93 Daisuke Tatsumi 94 Héctor Mendoza 95 Hugo Kanabushi 96 Jun Hasegawa 99 Toru Anan

Coaching	Manager: 24 Yoshinobu Takahashi Second squad manager: 83 Masaki Saito

Japan 2006 World Baseball Classic Champions Roster (1st Title)

1 Akinori Iwamura 2 Michihiro Ogasawara 3 Nobuhiko Matsunaka 5 Kazuhiro Wada 6 Hitoshi Tamura 7 Tsuyoshi Nishioka 8 Toshiaki Imae 9 Tatsuhiko Kinjoh 10 Shinya Miyamoto 11 Naoyuki Shimizu 12 Soichi Fujita 15 Tomoyuki Kubota 17 Kosuke Fukudome 18 Daisuke Matsuzaka 19 Koji Uehara 20 Yasuhiko Yabuta 21 Tsuyoshi Wada 22 Tomoya Satozaki 23 Norichika Aoki 24 Kyuji Fujikawa 25 Takahiro Arai 27 Motonobu Tanishige 31 Shunsuke Watanabe 40 Akinori Otsuka 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi 47 Toshiya Sugiuchi 51 Ichiro Suzuki 52 Munenori Kawasaki 59 Ryoji Aikawa 61 Hirotoshi Ishii／Takahiro Mahara

Manager 89 Sadaharu Oh Coach 84 Kazuhiro Takeda Coach 85 Hatsuhiko Tsuji Coach 86 Yoshitaka Katori Coach 87 Yasunori Oshima Coach 88 Sumio Hirota

Japan 2013 World Baseball Classic roster

1 Takashi Toritani 2 Ryoji Aikawa 3 Hirokazu Ibata 5 Nobuhiro Matsuda 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Kazuo Matsui 9 Yoshio Itoi 10 Shinnosuke Abe 11 Hideaki Wakui 13 Sho Nakata 14 Atsushi Nohmi 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 16 Takeru Imamura 17 Masahiro Tanaka 18 Toshiya Sugiuchi 20 Kenta Maeda 21 Masahiko Morifuku 24 Seiichi Uchikawa 26 Tetsuya Utsumi 27 Ginjiro Sumitani 28 Kenji Otonari 34 Hisayoshi Chōno 35 Kazuhisa Makita 41 Atsunori Inaba 46 Yuichi Honda 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi 50 Tadashi Settsu 61 Katsuya Kakunaka

Manager Koji Yamamoto Coach Osamu Higashio Coach Masataka Nashida Coach Koichi Ogata Coach Nobuhiro Takashiro Coach Kazuyoshi Tatsunami Coach Tsuyoshi Yoda

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