- Makoto Imaoka
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Makoto Imaoka
今岡 誠
Chiba Lotte Marines — No. 2 Infielder Born: September 11, 1974
Takarazuka, Hyōgo, JapanBats: Right Throws: Right Professional debut NPB: April 8, 1997 for the Hanshin Tigers NPB statistics
(through 2010 season)Batting average .279 Hits 1281 RBIs 593 Teams - Hanshin Tigers (1997 - 2009)
- Chiba Lotte Marines (2010 - )
Last update: 3 February 2010 Medal record Competitor for 
JapanMen's Baseball Summer Olympics Silver Atlanta 1996 Team Competition Intercontinental Cup Silver Havana 1995 Team Competition Makoto Imaoka (今岡 誠, born September 11, 1974) is a Japanese professional baseball player from Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan.
Imaoka spent several uneventful seasons in the Japanese professional leagues before being chosen as the lead-off batter by Senichi Hoshino, who managed the Hanshin Tigers from 2002-2004. Imaoka won the batting title in 2003 with a .340 batting average, and his team won the Central League pennant the same year. He had previously played shortstop and second base, but was converted to third base in 2004. He continued his hitting prowess, and led the league with 147 RBIs in 2005. He fell into a huge slump in 2006, and missed half of the season due to injuries.
He won a silver medal playing for the Japanese national team in the 1996 Summer Olympics before entering the Japanese professional leagues.
Career statistics(through 2010)
SEASON TEAM Squad number G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB AVG 1997 HT 7 98 252 18 63 11 1 2 20 1 .250 1998 133 471 48 138 20 3 7 44 6 .293 1999 128 457 36 115 11 1 6 39 4 .252 2000 40 113 8 24 5 0 1 2 0 .212 2001 123 400 36 107 15 0 4 40 3 .268 2002 122 505 46 160 40 0 15 56 0 .317 2003 120 485 67 165 35 1 12 72 1 .340 2004 138 572 87 175 29 0 28 83 0 .306 2005 146 559 71 156 26 2 29 147 1 .279 2006 59 204 16 45 3 2 7 29 1 .220 2007 85 323 23 90 8 0 4 24 0 .279 2008 55 169 15 29 3 0 7 29 0 .172 2009 23 30 0 4 2 0 0 2 0 .133 2010 CLM 2 26 44 3 10 2 0 0 6 0 .227 Total 1296 4584 474 1281 210 10 122 593 17 .279 External links
- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com
Chiba Lotte Marines current roster First squad 1 Ikuhiro Kiyota | 2 Makoto Imaoka | 3 Takahito Kudo | 4 Takashi Ogino | 5 Shota Ishimine | 6 Tadahito Iguchi | 8 Toshiaki Imae | 9 Kazuya Fukuura | 10 Shoitsu Ohmatsu | 14 Tomohisa Ohtani | 17 Yoshihisa Naruse | 19 Yuki Karakawa | 21 Tatsuya Uchi | 22 Tomoya Satozaki | 23 Hisao Heiuchi | 27 Takuya Furuya | 28 Kazunori Yamamoto | 30 Yoshihiro Itoh | 31 Shunsuke Watanabe | 40 Masato Watanabe | 43 Itsuhiro Mitsuhara | 44 Hayden Penn | 49 Yasuhiko Yabuta | 52 Kim Tae-Kyun | 55 Takumi Kobe | 62 Takeshi Kanazawa | 66 Yoshifumi Okada | 69 Bill Murphy | 99 Carlos Rosa |
Second squad 00 Takuya Takahama | 0 Tadahiro Ogino | 11 Yuta Omine | 12 Yuji Yoshimi | 13 Kentaro Hashimoto | 15 Hiroki Ueno | 16 Bob McCrory | 20 Yasutaka Hattori | 24 Shota Koike | 29 Shingo Ono | 33 Masaki Minami | 34 Yuta Kimura | 35 Toshiki Tsuboi | 36 Takayuki Takaguchi | 37 Keisuke Hayashi | 38 Taiki Nakagoh | 39 Masahiko Tanaka | 40 Masato Watanabe | 41 Atsushi Kobayashi | 42 Ryoji Katsuki | 45 Kodai Matsumoto | 46 Hidetaka Kawagoe | 47 Takumi Nasuno | 48 Akichika Yamada | 50 Shota Omine | 51 Masatomo Uematsu | 53 Naoya Emura | 54 Syuhei Fujitani | 56 Tetsuya Yamamoto | 57 Koshiro Yamamuro | 58 Takeshi Aono | 59 Kei Hosoya | 60 Kazunari Abe | 61 Katsuya Kakunaka | 63 Keiyo Aomatsu | 64 Hiroshi Miyamoto | 65 Ryusuke Minami | 67 Naoki Matoba | 68 Keisuke Hayasaka | 70 Takuma Sadaoka |
Development players 121 Shota Kurosawa (P) | 122 Lin Yen-Feng (P) | 123 Shogo Yamaguchi (P) | 124 Jyunya Ishida (P) | 125 Tsai Shen-Fu (IF) | 127 Yukihiro Kimoto (P) | 128 Akira Suzue (P) | 129 Kota Sumi (IF) | 130 Hiruto Ikuyama (IF) | 131 Yuji Nishino (P) | 133 Masashi Yoshida (IF)
First squad Coaching Manager: 78 Norifumi Nishimura | Head coach: 76 Michio Aoyama | Pitching/Battery coach: 71 Takashi Nishimoto | INF/Chief Fielder's coach: 75 Eiji Kanamori | Hitting coach: 83 Yoshiie Tachibana | Baserunning coaches: 72 Seiji Kamikawa, 73 Kenji Morozumi | Battery coach: 74 Kiyoshi Yamanaka | Physical coach: 98 Mamoru Akasaka |
Second squad Coaching Manager: 87 Yoshihiko Takahashi | General coach: 85 Hidetoshi Hakamada | Batting coach: 86 Kiyoyuki Nagashima | Pitching coach: 81 Toshihide Narimoto | Baserunning coaches: 83 Kenichi Satoh, 80 Takenori Daita | Bullpen coach: 88 Shiro Maesatoh | Ikusei coach: 89 Shigeki Ikeda |
Categories:- 1974 births
- Living people
- Japanese baseball players
- Baseball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic baseball players of Japan
- Olympic silver medalists for Japan
- Hanshin Tigers players
- Chiba Lotte Marines players
- People from Hyōgo Prefecture
- Olympic medalists in baseball
- Japanese baseball biography stubs
- Baseball infielder stubs
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