Shinya Miyamoto
Appearance
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Miyamoto with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows | ||||||||||||||||||
Infielder/Coach | ||||||||||||||||||
Born: Suita, Osaka, Japan | November 5, 1970||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Right-handed Threw: Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||
NPB debut | ||||||||||||||||||
April 11, 1995, for the Yakult Swallows | ||||||||||||||||||
Last appearance | ||||||||||||||||||
2013, for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows | ||||||||||||||||||
NPB statistics (through 2013) | ||||||||||||||||||
Batting average | .282 | |||||||||||||||||
Hits | 2133 | |||||||||||||||||
Home runs | 62 | |||||||||||||||||
RBI | 578 | |||||||||||||||||
Stolen bases | 111 | |||||||||||||||||
Sacrifice bunt | 408 | |||||||||||||||||
Teams | ||||||||||||||||||
As player
As coach | ||||||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | ||||||||||||||||||
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Medals
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Shinya Miyamoto (宮本 慎也, Miyamoto Shin'ya, born November 5, 1970) is a former professional baseball player from Suita, Osaka, Japan. He played shortstop.
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He was chosen as the captain of the Japanese olympic baseball team for the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal in 2004. He was also part of the 2006 World Baseball Classic Japanese baseball team.
External links
[edit]- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from JapaneseBaseball.com
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Career statistics - NPB.jp (in Japanese)
Categories:
- 1970 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Suita
- Nippon Professional Baseball infielders
- Yakult Swallows players
- Tokyo Yakult Swallows players
- Baseball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Baseball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic baseball players for Japan
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- 2006 World Baseball Classic players
- Olympic medalists in baseball
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Japanese baseball coaches
- Nippon Professional Baseball coaches
- Japanese Olympic medalist stubs
- Japanese baseball biography stubs
- Baseball shortstop stubs