This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Atsushi Fujimoto" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (February 2009) Click for important translation instructions.
|
Atsushi Fujimoto | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hanshin Tigers – No. 74 | |||||||||||||||
Infielder / Coach | |||||||||||||||
Born: (1977-10-04) October 4, 1977 (age 47) Akashi, Hyogo, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Batted: LeftThrew: Right | |||||||||||||||
NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
April 14, 2001, for the Hanshin Tigers | |||||||||||||||
Last NPB appearance | |||||||||||||||
September 24, 2013, for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows | |||||||||||||||
NPB statistics (through 2013 season) | |||||||||||||||
Batting average | .251 | ||||||||||||||
Run batted in | 208 | ||||||||||||||
Hits | 519 | ||||||||||||||
Teams | |||||||||||||||
As player
As coach
| |||||||||||||||
Medals
|
Atsushi Fujimoto (藤本 敦士, Fujimoto Atsushi, born October 4, 1977) is a former professional baseball player from Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan. After a nine-year career for the Hanshin Tigers, Fujimoto finished his career with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows before retiring at the end of the 2013 season. On 6 November 2014 it was announced that Fujimoto will return to Hanshin as an infield and baserunning coach for the farm team.
He joined the Japanese Olympic baseball team for the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal. He played in every inning of every game in the olympic tournament for the Japanese team.
References
External links
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
This biographical article relating to a Japanese baseball infielder is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
This article about a Japanese Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Baseball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Hanshin Tigers players
- Japanese baseball coaches
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Nippon Professional Baseball coaches
- Nippon Professional Baseball second basemen
- Nippon Professional Baseball shortstops
- Nippon Professional Baseball third basemen
- Olympic baseball players for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Olympic medalists in baseball
- Baseball people from Hyōgo Prefecture
- Tokyo Yakult Swallows players
- People from Akashi, Hyōgo
- Japanese baseball infielder stubs
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs