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Kazuyoshi Tatsunami

Chunichi Dragons — No. 3
Infielder
Bats: Left	Throws: Right
Professional debut
April 8, 1988 for the Chunichi Dragons
statistics (through 2008 season)
Batting average	.284
Home runs	170
Runs batted in	1020
Teams
Chunichi Dragons (1988–present)
Career highlights and awards
1988 Central League Rookie of the Year

Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (Japanese:立浪和義, August 19, 1969 in Settsu, Osaka, Japan) is a professional baseball player for the Nippon Professional Baseball Chunichi Dragons, having played his professional career for them since his debut in 1988. He was drafted in the first round in the 1987 NPB Draft.

Tatsunami holds the all-time NPB double record with 487, and is a member of the Meikyukai (Association of Great Players, or Golden Players Club).

After the 2009 season, Tatsunami retired, having seen his skills and playing time diminish for the last few seasons. He retired with a career .285 batting average, 171 home runs, 1,037 RBI, and 2,480 hits.

[edit] References

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com

Awards
Preceded by Yukio Arai	Central League Rookie of the Year 1988	Succeeded by Kenji Tomashino

Central League Rookie of the Year Award

v • d • e Chunichi Dragons current roster

First squad	00 Akihiro Maeda \| 2 Masahiro Araki \| 3 Kazuyoshi Tatsunami \| 5 Kazuhiro Wada \| 6 Hirokazu Ibata \| 8 Ryosuke Hirata \| 9 Kazuki Inoue \| 13 Hitoki Iwase \| 19 Kazuki Yoshimi \| 20 Kenichi Nakata \| 21 Wei-Yin Chen \| 23 Yoshihiro Suzuki \| 24 Hidenori Kuramoto \| 27 Motonobu Tanishige \| 30 Kei Nomoto \| 31 Masahiko Morino \| 34 Masahiro Yamamoto \| 41 Takuya Asao \| 42 Tony Blanco \| 43 Takashi Ogasawara \| 44 Masaaki Koike \| 45 Nelson Payano \| 46 Tatsuro Iwasaki \| 60 Junichi Kawahara \| 65 Kenji Oyama \| 67 Akifumi Takahashi \| 69 Masato Kobayashi

Second squad	0 Hiroki Kongoh \| 1 Naomichi Donoue \| 4 Atsushi Fujii \| 7 Byung-Kyu Lee \| 12 Akinobu Shimizu \| 14 Kenta Asakura \| 16 Mitsuru Satoh \| 17 Susumu Kawai \| 18 Junki Ito \| 22 Daisuke Tanaka \| 25 Ryota Arai \| 26 Sohma Yamauchi \| 28 Shinji Iwata \| 29 Daisuke Yamai \| 32 Hiroki Nakagawa \| 33 Masafumi Hirai \| 35 Shohei Takashima \| 36 Tetsuya Tani \| 37 Kyohei Iwasaki \| 38 Shinsuke Saitoh \| 39 Masaumi Shimizu \| 40 Akira Nishikawa \| 47 Masanori Kikuchi \| 48 Michihisa Sawai \| 49 Maximo Nelson \| 50 Ryota Satoh \| 51 Issei Nakamura \| 52 Kohei Oda \| \| 53 Shigeo Yanagida \| 54 Kazuyuki Akasaka \| 55 Nobumasa Fukuda \| 56 Koji Nakamura \| 57 Tomas de la Rosa \| 58 Ken Higuchi \| 59 Masatoshi Ogawa \| 61 Yuichi Hisamoto \| 62 Shinji Ito \| 63 Takehiro Donoue \| 64 Ryosuke Oguma \| 68 Shoji Nagamine \| 70 Atsushi Nakazato \| 201 Satoshi Kato \| 211 Takaya Kobayashi

Coaching Staff	Manager 66 Hiromitsu Ochiai \| Second squad Manager 85 Hatsuhiko Tsuji

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