Hiroshi Yagi
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| Hiroshi Yagi | |||
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| Coach / Infielder | |||
| Born: June 8, 1965 Tamano, Okayama, Japan |
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| NPB debut | |||
| May 12, 1987, for the Hanshin Tigers | |||
| Last NPB appearance | |||
| October 10, 2004, for the Hanshin Tigers | |||
| NPB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .247 | ||
| Hits | 817 | ||
| Runs batted in | 383 | ||
| Stolen Bases | 33 | ||
| Home runs | 126 | ||
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Hiroshi Yagi (八木 裕?, born June 8, 1965 in Tamano, Okayama, Japan) is a retired Japanese baseball player for the Hanshin Tigers. He was an All-Star in 1990 and a member of the Tigers' 2003 championship team. In the later years of his career, he was known as the team's "God of Pinch Hitting".[1] After retiring at the end of the 2004 season, he spent some time in the media before becoming a hitting coach for Hanshin in 2009. He was named as the hitting coach for the club's second team for the 2015 season.[2]
