| Motonobu Tanishige | |||||||||||||||
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 Tanishige with the Chunichi Dragons | |||||||||||||||
| Catcher /Manager | |||||||||||||||
| Born: (1970-12-21)December 21, 1970 (age 54) | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
| April 11, 1989, for the Yokohama Taiyo Whales | |||||||||||||||
| Last NPB appearance | |||||||||||||||
| September 26, 2015, for the Chunichi Dragons | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through 2015) | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .240 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 229 | ||||||||||||||
| Hits | 2,108 | ||||||||||||||
| RBI | 1,040 | ||||||||||||||
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| As Player As Manager | |||||||||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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| Member of the Japanese | |||||||||||||||
 Baseball Hall of Fame | |||||||||||||||
| Induction | 2024 | ||||||||||||||
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Motonobu Tanishige (Japanese: 谷繁 元信, born December 21, 1970, inHiroshima) is a retiredJapanese professional baseball player and manager.
Tanishige played 27 seasons inNippon Professional Baseball (NPB), appearing in more games than any other player in NPB history.[1] Making his debut for theTaiyo Whales in 1989 at age 18, he played for the franchise for 13 years. In 2002, he moved to theChunichi Dragons, where he played for 14 seasons, until 2015. He was theplayer-manager of the Chunichi Dragons from 2014 to 2015,[2] staying on as manager in 2016.
Tanishige played in fiveJapan Series. He played in the2006 World Baseball Classic, when Japan won the championship.
Tanishige performed well in the2004 Japan Series (in which the Dragons lost 4-games-to-3 to theSeibu Lions), including hitting his first career grand slam.
In 2015, Tanishige broke the NPB record for games played, passingKatsuya Nomura with 3,018[1] — he later extended the record. Tanishige is second on the career strikeout list with 1,838.[citation needed] With more than 200 career home runs, Tanshige is a member of theMeikyukai hall of fame.[citation needed]
After retiring from playing at the end of the 2015 season, Tanishige became full-time manager of the Dragons. After a rocky start to the season followed by a lacklustre continuation following the All-Star break, on August 10, 2016, he was relieved from his duties alongside fielding coachTakahiro Saeki.[3] He was replaced by head coach,Shigekazu Mori for the remainder of the season.[4]
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