- Michihiro Ogasawara
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Michihiro Ogasawara Yomiuri Giants — No. 2 Infielder Bats: Left Throws: Right Professional debut 1997 for the Nippon Ham Fighters statistics
(through 2010)Batting average .316 Home runs 371 RBI 1111 Teams Career highlights and awards - 2006 Pacific League MVP
- 2007 Central League MVP
- 1× Japan Series champion (2009)
Medal record
Ogasawara played for Japan in the 2006 World Baseball Classic.Men's Baseball Bronze Athens 2004 Team Competition World Baseball Classic Gold 2006 San Diego Team Competition Gold 2009 Los Angeles Team Competition Michihiro Ogasawara (小笠原 道大, born October 25, 1973 in Mihama-ku, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball player. He currently plays first base for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League . He played with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters from 1997 to 2006.
Career
Ogasawara is one of the most consistent hitters in Japanese baseball. He won two consecutive batting titles from 2002-2003, and led the league in home runs and RBIs in 2006 to win the Pacific League MVP award. He led the league in hits from 2000-2001, and has won 6 Japanese Golden Glove awards at first base and third base. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece, winning a bronze medal. He also played for the Japanese national team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic, where he hit a home run off Esteban Loaiza at Angel Stadium of Anaheim. In 2006, he helped the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters win their first Pacific League pennant since 1981, sweeping the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the playoffs to reach the Japanese championship series against the Chunichi Dragons. The Fighters beat the Dragons in 5 games to win the Japanese championship series.
He became a free agent in 2006, and signed a four-year contract with the Yomiuri Giants during the off-season.
Career statistics
Nippon Professional Baseball Year Age Team G AB R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI SB AVG 1997 24 Nippon-Ham 44 94 7 21 10 2 0 35 7 1 .223 1998 25 Nippon-Ham 71 86 7 26 5 0 1 34 9 1 .302 1999 26 Nippon-Ham 135 547 90 156 34 4 25 273 83 3 .285 2000 27 Nippon-Ham 135 554 126 182 23 4 31 306 102 24 .329 2001 28 Nippon-Ham 140 576 108 195 40 2 32 335 86 1 .339 2002 29 Nippon-Ham 135 486 77 165 27 2 32 292 81 8 .340 2003 30 Nippon-Ham 128 445 83 160 34 1 31 289 100 8 .360 2004 31 Nippon-Ham 101 377 78 130 19 2 18 207 70 3 .345 2005 32 Nippon-Ham 133 514 91 145 27 2 37 287 92 2 .282 2006 33 Nippon-Ham 135 496 77 155 31 1 32 284 100 4 .313 2007 34 Yomiuri 142 566 95 177 33 1 31 305 88 4 .313 2008 35 Yomiuri 144 520 93 161 27 1 36 298 96 0 .310 2009 36 Yomiuri 139 514 78 159 25 1 31 279 107 2 .309 2010 37 Yomiuri 137 510 83 157 24 1 34 285 90 1 .308 2011 38 Yomiuri 55 191 9 42 7 0 1 52 10 0 .220 Statistics current as of July 22, 2011
External links
- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com
Awards Preceded by
Toshiya SugiuchiPacific League MVP
2006Succeeded by
Yu DarvishPreceded by
Kosuke FukudomeCentral League MVP
2007Succeeded by
Alex RamírezPacific League MVP Award 1950: Betto | 1951: Yamamoto | 1952: Yuki | 1953: Okamoto | 1954: Oshita | 1955: Iida | 1956: Nakanishi | 1957: Inao | 1958: Inao | 1959: Sugiura | 1960: Yamauchi | 1961: Nomura | 1962: Harimoto | 1963: Nomura | 1964: Stanka | 1965: Nomura | 1966: Nomura | 1967: Adachi | 1968: Yoneda | 1969: Nagaike | 1970: Kitaru | 1971: Nagaike | 1972: Fukumoto | 1973: Nomura | 1974: Kaneda | 1975: Kato | 1976: Yamada | 1977: Yamada | 1978: Yamada | 1979: Manuel | 1980: Kida | 1981: Enatsu | 1982: Ochiai | 1983: Higashio | 1984: G. Wells | 1985: Ochiai | 1986: Ishige | 1987: Higashio | 1988: Kadota | 1989: Bryant | 1990: Nomo | 1991: T. Kaku | 1992: Ishii | 1993: Kudoh | 1994: Suzuki | 1995: Suzuki | 1996: Suzuki | 1997: Nishiguchi | 1998: K. Matsui | 1999: Kudoh | 2000: Matsunaka | 2001: Rhodes | 2002: Cabrera | 2003: Johjima | 2004: Matsunaka | 2005: Sugiuchi | 2006: Ogasawara | 2007: Darvish | 2008: Iwakuma | 2009: Darvish | 2010: WadaCentral League MVP Award 1950: Kozuru | 1951: Kawakami | 1952: Bessho | 1953: Otomo | 1954: Sugishita | 1955: Kawakami | 1956: Bessho | 1957: Yonamine | 1958: Fujita | 1959: Fujita | 1960: Akiyama | 1961: Nagashima | 1962: Murayama | 1963: Nagashima | 1964: Oh | 1965: Oh | 1966: Nagashima | 1967: Oh | 1968: Nagashima | 1969: Oh | 1970: Oh | 1971: Nagashima | 1972: Horiuchi | 1973: Oh | 1974: Oh | 1975: Yamamoto | 1976: Oh | 1977: Oh | 1978: Wakamatsu | 1979: Enatsu | 1980: Yamamoto | 1981: Egawa | 1982: Nakao | 1983: Hara | 1984: Kinugasa | 1985: Bass | 1986: Kitabeppu | 1987: Yamakura | 1988: G. Kaku | 1989: Cromartie | 1990: Saito | 1991: Sasaoka | 1992: Howell | 1993: Furuta | 1994: Kuwata | 1995: O'Malley | 1996: H. Matsui | 1997: Furuta | 1998: Sasaki | 1999: Noguchi | 2000: H. Matsui | 2001: Petagine | 2002: H. Matsui | 2003: Igawa | 2004: Kawakami | 2005: Kanemoto | 2006: Fukudome | 2007: Ogasawara | 2008: Ramírez | 2009: Ramírez | 2010: WadaYomiuri Giants current roster First squad 00 Takayuki Terauchi | 5 Alex Ramírez | 6 Hayato Sakamoto | 7 Hisayoshi Chono | 8 Yoshitomo Tani | 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei | 10 Shinnosuke Abe | 11 Yuya Kubo | 12 Takahiro Suzuki | 15 Hirokazu Sawamura | 17 Shun Tono | 22 Daisuke Ochi | 24 Yoshinobu Takahashi | 25 Josh Fields | 26 Tetsuya Utsumi | 28 Norihito Kaneto | 35 Kentaro Nishimura | 36 Micheal Nakamura | 41 Jonathan Albaladejo | 43 Kazunari Tsuruoka | 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi | 48 Kenji Yano | 50 Ryuichi Kajimae | 51 Shigeyuki Furuki | 53 Kazunari Sanematsu | 54 Daisuke Fujimura | 60 Junpei Ono | 65 Itaru Hashimoto |
Second squad 0 Saburo Ohmura | 2 Michihiro Ogasawara | 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei | 13 Yasunari Takagi | 23 Ryota Wakiya | 27 Yuya Ichikawa | 29 Seth Greisinger | 30 Ryosuke Miyaguni | 31 Shinji Takahashi | 32 Tetsuya Matsumoto | 33 Rusty Ryal | 37 Hideki Sunaga | 38 Hideki Asai | 39 Levi Romero | 40 Ken Katoh | 42 Carlos Torres | 44 Toshimasa Konta | 45 Takahiko Nomaguchi | 46 Kyohei Tsuchimoto | 49 Dicky Gonzalez | 52 Hidetoshi Tsuburaya | 55 Taishi Ohta | 56 Hiroki Nakazawa | 57 Yuki Furukawa | 59 Satoshi Fukuda | 61 Daisuke Nakai | 62 Takahisa Ueno | 63 Atsushi Nakazato | 64 Masato Kiyashiki | 66 Daijiro Tanaka | 67 Keisuke Saito | 68 Taichi Tanaka | 69 Tomoya Inzen | 93 Shoki Kasahara | 94 Yuki Koyama | 95 Masumi Hoshino | 96 Lin Yi-Hao | 97 Huang Chih-Lung | 98 Takanobu Tsujiuchi | 99 Syugo Fujii
Coaching Manager: 88 Tatsunori Hara | Second squad manager: 78 Masahiro Kawai
Japan 2006 World Baseball Classic Champions Roster (1st Title) 1 Akinori Iwamura | 2 Michihiro Ogasawara | 3 Nobuhiko Matsunaka | 5 Kazuhiro Wada | 6 Hitoshi Tamura | 7 Tsuyoshi Nishioka | 8 Toshiaki Imae | 9 Tatsuhiko Kinjoh | 10 Shinya Miyamoto | 11 Naoyuki Shimizu | 12 Soichi Fujita | 15 Tomoyuki Kubota | 17 Kosuke Fukudome | 18 Daisuke Matsuzaka | 19 Koji Uehara | 20 Yasuhiko Yabuta | 21 Tsuyoshi Wada | 22 Tomoya Satozaki | 23 Norichika Aoki | 24 Kyuji Fujikawa | 25 Takahiro Arai | 27 Motonobu Tanishige | 31 Shunsuke Watanabe | 40 Akinori Otsuka | 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi | 47 Toshiya Sugiuchi | 51 Ichiro Suzuki | 52 Munenori Kawasaki | 59 Ryoji Aikawa | 61 Hirotoshi Ishii/Takahiro MaharaManager 89 Sadaharu Oh | Coach 84 Kazuhiro Takeda | Coach 85 Hatsuhiko Tsuji | Coach 86 Yoshitaka Katori | Coach 87 Yasunori Oshima | Coach 88 Sumio HirotaJapan 2009 World Baseball Classic Champions Roster (2nd Title) 1 Kosuke Fukudome | 2 Kenji Johjima | 5 Kenta Kurihara | 6 Hiroyuki Nakajima | 7 Yasuyuki Kataoka | 8 Akinori Iwamura | 9 Michihiro Ogasawara | 10 Shinnosuke Abe | 11 Yu Darvish | 14 Takahiro Mahara | 15 Masahiro Tanaka | 16 Hideaki Wakui | 18 Daisuke Matsuzaka | 19 Minoru Iwata | 20 Hisashi Iwakuma | 22 Kyuji Fujikawa | 23 Norichika Aoki | 24 Seiichi Uchikawa | 25 Shuichi Murata | 26 Tetsuya Utsumi | 28 Satoshi Komatsu | 29 Yoshiyuki Ishihara | 31 Shunsuke Watanabe | 35 Yoshiyuki Kamei | 39 Tetsuya Yamaguchi | 41 Atsunori Inaba | 47 Toshiya Sugiuchi | 51 Ichiro Suzuki | 52 Munenori Kawasaki
Manager 83 Tatsunori Hara | Coach 72 Tsutomu Ito | Coach 71 Hisashi Yamada | Coach 92 Tsuyoshi Yoda | Coach 81 Kazunori Shinozuka | Coach 63 Nobuhiro Takashiro
Categories:- 1973 births
- Living people
- Japanese baseball players
- Nippon Ham Fighters players
- Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters players
- Yomiuri Giants players
- Baseball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Japan
- Olympic baseball players of Japan
- 2006 World Baseball Classic players
- 2009 World Baseball Classic players
- People from Chiba (city)
- Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture
- Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners
- Olympic medalists in baseball
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