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Tatsunori Hara 原辰徳

Yomiuri Giants — No. 88
Manager
Born: July 22, 1958 (1958-07-22) (age 51) Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
Professional debut
NPB: April 4, 1981 for the Yomiuri Giants
Last professional appearance
October 8, 1995 for the Yomiuri Giants
NPB statistics
Batting average	.279
Hits	1675
RBIs	1093
Teams
As player Yomiuri Giants (1981–1995) As manager Yomiuri Giants (2002–2003, 2006–present) Japan (2009)
Career highlights and awards
1981 Central League Rookie of the Year 1983 Central League MVP 2× Japan Series champion (2002,2009)

Tatsunori Hara (原辰徳, Hara Tatsunori^?, born July 22, 1958 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan) is the current manager for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball. He also played for the Yomiuri Giants during his professional baseball career from 1981 to 1995. Hara led the Japan national baseball team to victory in the final of the 2009 World Baseball Classic.^[1]

[edit] References

^ "Tatsunori Hara expected to manage Japan at World Baseball Classic". The Canadian Press. 2008-10-28. http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdfG6Xvo0FW56TeA1kuMy4U8WHRw. Retrieved 2008-10-28.

[edit] External links

Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com

Awards
Preceded by Akinobu Okada	Central League Rookie of the Year 1981	Succeeded by Tsunemi Tsuda
Preceded by Takayoshi Nakao	Central League MVP 1983	Succeeded by Sachio Kinugasa
Sporting positions
Preceded by Shigeo Nagashima Tsuneo Horiuchi	Yomiuri Giants manager 2002–2003 2006–present	Succeeded by Tsuneo Horiuchi Incumbent

Central League Rookie of the Year Award

Central League MVP Award

Current managers in Nippon Professional Baseball

v • d • e Yomiuri Giants current roster

First squad	00 Takayuki Terauchi \| 2 Michihiro Ogasawara \| 5 Alex Ramírez \| 6 Hayato Sakamoto \| 8 Yoshitomo Tani \| 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei \| 10 Shinnosuke Abe \| 12 Takahiro Suzuki \| 17 Shun Tono \| 20 Kiyoshi Toyoda \| 22 Daisuke Ochi \| 23 Ryota Wakiya \| 25 Lee Seung-Yeop \| 26 Tetsuya Utsumi \| 28 Norihito Kaneto \| 33 Takahiko Nomaguchi \| 35 Takahito Kudo \| 36 Micheal Nakamura \| 37 Soichi Fujita \| 42 Marc Kroon \| 43 Kazunari Tsuruoka \| 44 Noriyoshi Omichi \| 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi \| 49 Dicky Gonzalez \| 51 Shigeyuki Furuki \| 64 Tetsuya Matsumoto \| 91 Wirfin Obispo

Second squad	11 Yuya Kubo \| 13 Edgardo Alfonzo \| 24 Yoshinobu Takahashi \| 29 Seth Greisinger \| 30 Kentaro Nishimura \| 31 Adrian Burnside \| 32 Hidetoshi Tsuburaya \| 38 Levi Romero \| 39 Takanobu Tsujiuchi \| 40 Ken Kato \| 41 Hiroshi Kisanuki \| 45 Masakuni Odajima \| 46 Toru Murata \| 48 Kenji Yano \| 50 Ryuichi Kajimae \| 53 Kazunari Sanematsu \| 54 Daisuke Fujimura \| 55 Taishi Ohta \| 56 Hiroki Nakazawa \| 57 Yuki Furukawa \| 58 Takanori Hoshi \| 59 Satoshi Fukuda \| 60 Takuya Fukata \| 61 Daisuke Nakai \| 62 Takahisa Ueno \| 63 Atsushi Nakazato \| 65 Takefumi Miyamoto \| 66 Daijiro Tanaka \| 67 Keisuke Saitoh \| 68 Masafumi Togano \| 69 Tomoya Inzen \| 92 Shota Kimura \| 93 Shoki Kasahara \| 95 Yuki Takeshima \| 94 Itaru Hashimoto \| 96 Takahiro Ijyuin

Coaching	Manager: 88 Tatsunori Hara \| Second squad manager: 83 Kaoru Okazaki

v • d • e Yomiuri Giants

Formerly the Great Japan Tokyo Baseball Club, the Tokyo Giants and the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants • Based in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan

The Franchise	Yomiuri Shimbun • History • Seasons • Records • Players • Managers • Broadcasters

Ballparks	Korakuen Stadium • Tokyo Dome Trainings: Sun Marine Stadium • Yomiuri Giants Stadium

Culture	Star of the Giants

Rivalries	Hanshin Tigers

Important Figures	Lefty O'Doul • Matsutarō Shōriki • Eiji Sawamura • Victor Starffin • Tetsuharu Kawakami • Masaichi Kaneda • Shigeo Nagashima • Tsuneo Horiuchi • Isao Harimoto • Sadaharu Oh • Tatsunori Hara • Hiromitsu Ochiai • Hideki Matsui • Masumi Kuwata • Koji Uehara • Yoshinobu Takahashi • Michihiro Ogasawara

Retired Numbers	1 • 3 • 4 • 14 • 16 • 34

Japan Series Championships (21)	1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1955 • 1961 • 1963 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969 • 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1981 • 1989 • 1994 • 2000 • 2002• 2009

Central League Championships (33)	1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959 • 1961 • 1963 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969 • 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1976 • 1977 • 1981 • 1983 • 1987 • 1989 • 1990 • 1994 • 1996 • 2000 • 2002 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009

Japanese Baseball League Championships (9)	Fall 1936 • Spring 1937 • Fall 1938 • 1939 • 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1949

Japan 2009 World Baseball Classic Champions Roster (2nd Title)

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