- Makoto Kaneko (baseball)
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Olympic medal record Men's Baseball Bronze Athens 2004 Team Competition Makoto Kaneko (金子 誠, born November 8, 1975) is a professional baseball player from Abiko, Chiba, Japan. He is an infielder for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters Japanese baseball team.
Kaneko won the Pacific League rookie of the year award in 1996. He won two golden glove awards at second base before being converted to shortstop.
He joined the Japanese olympic baseball team for the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal.
External links
- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com
Awards Preceded by
Masafumi HiraiPacific League Rookie of the Year
1996Succeeded by
Makoto KosakaPacific League Rookie of the Year Award 1950: Aramaki | 1951: Kageyama | 1952: Nakanishi | 1953: Toyoda | 1954: Takuwa | 1955: Enomoto | 1956: Inao | 1957: Kimura | 1958: Sugiura | 1959: Harimoto | 1960: None | 1961: Tokuhisa | 1962: Ozaki | 1963: None | 1964: None | 1965: Ikenaga | 1966: None | 1967: Y. Takahashi | 1968: None | 1969: Arito | 1970: M. Sato | 1971: Minagawa | 1972: Kato | 1973: Niimi | 1974: Mitsui | 1975: Yamaguchi | 1976: M. Fujita | 1977: Y. Sato | 1978: Murakami | 1979: Matsunuma | 1980: Kida | 1981: Ishige | 1982: Oishi | 1983: Futamura | 1984: H. Fujita | 1985: Kumano | 1986: Kiyohara | 1987: Awano | 1988: Moriyama | 1989: Sakai | 1990: Nomo | 1991: Hasegawa | 1992: Takamura | 1993: Sugiyama | 1994: Watanabe | 1995: Hirai | 1996: Kaneko | 1997: Kosaka | 1998: Ozeki | 1999: Matsuzaka | 2000: None | 2001: Okubo | 2002: Shoda | 2003: Wada | 2004: Mise | 2005: Kubo | 2006: Yagi | 2007: Tanaka | 2008: Komatsu | 2009: Settsu | 2010: SakakibaraHokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters current roster 2 Bobby Scales | 3 Kensuke Tanaka | 4 Yuji Iiyama | 5 Eiichi Koyano | 6 Sho Nakata | 7 Yoshio Itoi | 8 Makoto Kaneko | 9 Micah Hoffpauir | 10 Brian Wolfe | 11 Yu Darvish | 12 Wirfin Obispo | 15 Ryo Sakakibara | 18 Yuki Saito | 19 Masanori Hayashi | 20 Keisaku Itokazu | 21 Hisashi Takeda | 22 Shinya Tsuruoka | 23 Tomohiro Nioka | 24 Yoh Daikan | 25 Naoki Miyanishi | 28 Shota Ono | 29 Tomoya Yagi | 31 Bob Keppel | 38 Masaru Takeda | 43 Hirotoshi Masui | 48 Keisuke Tanimoto | 51 Kazuya Murata | 62 Ryota Imanari | 65 Kazuhito Tadano
Coaching: Manager 88 Masataka Nashida
Categories:- 1975 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture
- Japanese baseball players
- Nippon Ham Fighters players
- Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters players
- Baseball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Olympic baseball players of Japan
- Nippon Professional Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners
- Olympic medalists in baseball
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs
- Japanese baseball biography stubs
- Baseball infielder stubs
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