| Toshiaki Imae | |||||||||||||||
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 Imae with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | |||||||||||||||
| Infielder / Manager / Coach | |||||||||||||||
| Born: (1983-08-26) August 26, 1983 (age 41) Kyoto, Japan | |||||||||||||||
| Batted: RightThrew: Right | |||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
| April 28, 2002, for the Chiba Lotte Marines | |||||||||||||||
| Last NPB appearance | |||||||||||||||
| June 28, 2019, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .283 | ||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1,682 | ||||||||||||||
| RBI | 726 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 108 | ||||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 32 | ||||||||||||||
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As coach | |||||||||||||||
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Toshiaki Imae (今江 敏晃, Imae Toshiaki, born August 26, 1983 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball former infielder and manager for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Playing career
Imae won the Most Valuable Player award in both the 2005 and 2010 Japan Series.
He selected 2018 NPB All-Star game [jp].
Coaching career
On October 17, 2023, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles announced that Imae would be promoted from hitting coach to manager for the 2024 season, replacing Kazuhisa Ishii.
References
- "マイナビオールスターゲーム2018 出場者". NPB.jp 日本野球機構 (in Japanese). August 13, 2018.
- "Baseball: Imae named new Rakuten manager, Fujimoto leaves Hawks". nippon.com. Retrieved November 2, 2023.
External links
Media related to Toshiaki Imae at Wikimedia Commons
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- NPB.com
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- 1983 births
- 2006 World Baseball Classic players
- Chiba Lotte Marines players
- Japanese baseball players
- Living people
- Nippon Professional Baseball third basemen
- Baseball people from Kyoto Prefecture
- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players
- Managers of baseball teams in Japan
- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles managers
- World Baseball Classic players of Japan
- Japanese baseball infielder stubs