Yoshinobu Takahashi

Takahashi with the Yomiuri Giants

Yomiuri Giants – No. 24

Outfielder/Manager

Bats: Left

Throws: Right

debut

April 3rd, 1998, for the Yomiuri Giants

Career statistics
(through 2010 season)

Batting average

.297

Home runs

277

RBI

809

Teams

As players

Yomiuri Giants (1998–2015)

As manager

Yomiuri Giants (2016–present)

Olympic medal record
Men's Baseball
	Athens 2004	Team Competition

Yoshinobu Takahashi (高橋由伸, born April 3, 1975) is a Japanese professional baseball player from Chiba, Japan. He is a current manager of the Yomiuri Giants, and he was one of the most well-known players in Japanese baseball. He graduated from Keio University.^[1]

A superb contact hitter, he is also known for his exemplary defensive play. He won the Golden Glove award in six consecutive years between 1998 and 2003. Despite his brilliant records, Takahashi has injured himself numerous times over the years going after fly balls. The injuries primarily resulted from his play style, in which he does not give up on fly balls until they hit the ground. His first injury was on September 14, 1999 at a Chunichi Dragons game, where he jumped diagonally against the outfield fence, causing a fractured shoulder bone.

He was selected to be part of the Japanese Olympic baseball team for the 2004 Summer Olympics, and contributed to the team's bronze medal.

References

↑ http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Yoshinobu_Takahashi

External links

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from JapaneseBaseball.com
Yoshinobu Takahashi at Sports-Reference.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Tatsunori Hara	Yomiuri Giants manager 2016–present	Succeeded by

Nippon Professional Baseball managers by team
Central League	Pacific League
Shigekazu Mori (Chunichi Dragons)	Tsutomu Ito (Chiba Lotte Marines)
Tomoaki Kanemoto (Hanshin Tigers)	Kimiyasu Kudoh (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks)
Koichi Ogata (Hiroshima Toyo Carp)	Hideki Kuriyama (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters)
Mitsuru Manaka (Tokyo Yakult Swallows)	Junichi Fukura (Orix Buffaloes)
Alex Ramírez (Yokohama DeNA BayStars)	Norio Tanabe (Saitama Seibu Lions)
Yoshinobu Takahashi (Yomiuri Giants)	Masataka Nashida (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles)
Defunct teams:

Yomiuri Giants current roster

First squad	00 Takayuki Terauchi 2 Dai-Kang Yang 5 Garrett Jones 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Hisayoshi Chono 10 Shinnosuke Abe 12 Ryota Wakiya 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 17 Kan Otake 19 Tomoyuki Sugano 20 Scott Mathieson 22 Seiji Kobayashi 23 Ryoji Aikawa 25 Shuichi Murata 26 Tetsuya Utsumi 27 Kazunari Sanematsu 30 Ryosuke Miyaguni 31 Tetsuya Matsumoto 32 Itaru Hashimoto 35 Kentaro Nishimura 37 Seiji Tahara 44 Taishi Ohta 45 Nobutaka Imamura 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi 48 Toshiyuki Yanuki 54 Hayato Takagi 56 Yasuhiro Yamamoto 60 Masahiro Inui 68 Daiki Yoshikawa 90 Kazuto Taguchi

Second squad	0 Daisuke Fujimura 8 Yasuyuki Kataoka 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei 11 Luis Cruz 13 Ryota Katsuki 18 Toshiya Sugiuchi 21 Toshiki Sakurai 28 Gabriel Garcia 33 Abner Abreu 36 Daisuke Nakai 38 Kazuma Okamoto 39 Miles Mikolas 40 Ken Katoh 42 Leslie Anderson 43 Shinnosuke Shigenobu 46 Hirotaka Yonahara 49 Aaron Poreda 50 Chiaki Tone 51 Takehiro Donoue 52 Shingo Usami 53 Genki Kawano 57 Katsuhiko Kumon 58 Soichiro Tateoka 59 Yuki Koyama 61 Ren Wada 62 Yuki Egarashi 64 Masato Kiyashiki 65 Harutomo Tsuji 66 Atsushi Kita 67 Mizuki Tsuchida 69 Takuya Matsuzaki 79 José Adolis García 91 Kota Nakagawa 92 Kentaro Taira 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

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