Shogo Akiyama

Akiyama with the Saitama Seibu Lions

Saitama Seibu Lions – No. 55

Outfielder

Born: April 16, 1988

Bats: Left

Throws: Right

NPB debut

April 12, 2011, for the Saitama Seibu Lions

NPB statistics
(through 2015 season)

Batting average

.290

Home runs

RBI

218

Teams

Saitama Seibu Lions (2011–present)

Career highlights and awards

2× Pacific League Golden Glove Award (2013, 2015)
1x Pacific League Best Nine (2015)
NPB single season hits record (216) (2015)

Medal record

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

Shogo Akiyama (秋山翔吾, born April 16, 1988 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. In 2015, Akiyama set the NPB record for hits in a single season with 216,^[1] surpassing the 214 collected by Matt Murton of the Hanshin Tigers in 2010.

Career statistics

Nippon Professional Baseball
Year	Age	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	RBI	SB	AVG
2011	23	Seibu	110	284	35	66	9	6	1	90	21	8	.232
2012	24	Seibu	107	403	50	118	17	8	4	163	37	10	.293
2013	25	Seibu	144	564	89	152	25	7	13	230	58	13	.270
2014	26	Seibu	131	475	64	123	24	6	4	171	47	3	.259
2015	27	Seibu	143	602	108	216	36	10	14	314	55	17	.359
Career			635	2328	346	675	111	37	36	968	218	51	.290

Statistics current as of January 14, 2016

References

↑ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2015/10/01/baseball/japanese-baseball/lions-akiyama-sets-single-season-hit-record/#.VrrIB1ZlxA9 Japan Times. Lions' Akiyama Sets Single Season Hits Mark. Retrieved February 10, 2016.

External links

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

Saitama Seibu Lions current roster

First squad	00 Daichi Mizuguchi 0 Shogo Kimura 1 Takumi Kuriyama 2 Yuji Kaneko 5 Yuji Onizaki 6 Naotaka Takehara 8 Naoto Watanabe 10 Tomoya Mori 11 Takayuki Kishi 12 Kuo Chun-lin 14 Tatsushi Masuda 16 Yusei Kikuchi 17 Kona Takahashi 20 Ryoma Nogami 25 Takanori Hoshi 27 Ginjiro Sumitani 28 Ryohei Fujiwara 29 Hirotaka Koishi 30 Yosuke Okamoto 32 Hideto Asamura 33 Hotaka Yamakawa 34 Yasuo Sano 35 Kazuhisa Makita 37 Masatoshi Okada 41 Makoto Aiuchi 42 Esmerling Vásquez 43 Tomomi Takahashi 44 Shuta Tonosaki 47 Andy Van Hekken 48 Shota Takekuma 51 Fumikazu Kimura 54 C. C. Lee 55 Shogo Akiyama 59 Kyohei Nagae 60 Takeya Nakamura 61 Shotaro Tashiro 62 Hitoto Komazuki 63 Isamu Sato 65 Shogo Saitoh 88 Ryo Sakata 99 Ernesto Mejía

Second squad	9 Yutaro Ohsaki 15 Tatsuya Oishi 19 Takuya Toyoda 21 Ken Togame 22 Atsushi Okamoto 23 Shogo Noda 26 Seiji Kawagoe 31 Toshihiro Iwao 36 Tadasuke Minamikawa 38 Yusuke Tamamura 39 Nien Ting Wu 40 Takayuki Yamaguchi 45 Keisuke Honda 46 Yuta Nakazaki 49 Tatsuyuki Uemoto 50 Kentaro Fukukura 52 Haruka Yamada 53 Aito Otaki 56 Kazuki Kaneko 57 Tsubasa Kokuba 58 Masato Kumashiro 64 Shota Nakata 66 Naoaki Matsumoto 67 Koki Fujita 68 Kazuki Miyata 71 Daisuke Togawa 78 Komei Fujisawa

First squad coaching	Manager: 90 Norio Tanabe Head and pitching coach: 86 Tetsuya Shiozaki Pitching coaches: 72 Yoshihiro Doi Batting coaches: 73 Hideki Hashigami, 76 Masahiro Abe, 80 Shigenobu Shima Fielding/Baserunning coaches: 70 Tomoaki Satoh, 74 Hiroshi Narahara Battery coach: 82 Masanori Taguchi Training coaches: 92 Shinobu Sakamoto, 96 Tatsuya Nakano

Second squad coaching	Manager: 83 Hisanori Yokota Pitching coaches: 89 Shinji Mori, 91 Eiji Kiyokawa Batting coaches: 75 Hiroyuki Takagi, 85 Katsuhiko Miyaji Fielding/Baserunning coaches: 87 Satoshi Kuroda, 77 Shogo Akada Battery coach: 84 Kosaku Akimoto Training coaches: 98 Takafumi Sato, 95 Haruki Kurokawa

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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