Akihiro Yano
Japanese baseball player (born 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Akihiro Yano (矢野 燿大, Yano Akihiro, real name: 矢野 輝弘, born December 6, 1968) is a former Japanese baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He started his career as the Number 2 Draft pick with the Chunichi Dragons in 1991, and played for the Hanshin Tigers from 1998 until his retirement in 2010.
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Catcher / Coach / Manager | |||||||||||||||
Born: Hirano-ku, Osaka, Japan | December 6, 1968|||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
August 3, 1991, for the Chunichi Dragons | |||||||||||||||
Last NPB appearance | |||||||||||||||
May 8, 2010, for the Hanshin Tigers | |||||||||||||||
NPB statistics | |||||||||||||||
Batting average | .274 | ||||||||||||||
Hits | 1347 | ||||||||||||||
Home runs | 112 | ||||||||||||||
RBIs | 570 | ||||||||||||||
Teams | |||||||||||||||
As player
As coach As manager | |||||||||||||||
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Last updated on: April 23, 2020 |

References
- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from JapaneseBaseball.com
- Career statistics from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Career statistics - NPB.jp (in Japanese)
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