Naoki Matoba

Japanese baseball player
Baseball player
Naoki Matoba
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles – No. 82
Catcher / Coach
Born: (1977-05-09) May 9, 1977 (age 47)
Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
NPB debut
April 30, 2000, for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
Last NPB appearance
October 1, 2011, for the Chiba Lotte Marines
NPB statistics
Batting average.161
Home runs5
Runs batted in42
Teams
As player

As coach

Naoki Matoba (的場 直樹, Matoba Naoki, born May 9, 1977 in Osaka), nicknamed "Matton",[1] is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He played for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks/Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in 2000, and from 2003 to 2008 and with the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2010 and 2011.

Matoba is an ordained priest within the Ōtani-ha branch of Shin Buddhism.

References

  1. ^ "ニックネーム". 千葉ロッテマリーンズ オフィシャルサイト 「マリンフェスタ」特設サイト (in Japanese). Retrieved April 23, 2019.

External links

  • Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
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Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles current roster
Pitchers
Catchers
  • 2 Hikaru Ohta
  • 44 Takaya Tanaka
  • 55 Yūma Yasuda
  • 65 Kengo Horiuchi
  • 70 Tsuyoshi Ishihara
Infielders
Outfielders
Development players
  • 017 Wang Yan-cheng (P)
  • 062 Naoto Nishiguchi (P)
  • 130 Kōsei Koga (P)
  • 138 Shinri Komine (P)
  • 155 Akihiro Takeshita (P)
  • 022 Kei Mizukami (C)
  • 137 Yūto Egawa (C)
  • 131 Sōtarō Nagata (IF)
  • 141 Kiyoharu Sawano (IF)
  • 142 Ōzora Yanagisawa (OF)
  • 144 Shō Ōkawara (OF)
First squad
coaching
Second squad
coaching
  • Manager: 88 Hajime Miki
  • Batting coaches: 84 Yūhei, 95 Toshitake Yokoo
  • Pitching coaches: 80 Takashi Ishii, 75 Shinichirō Koyama, 91 Yūya Kubo
  • Battery coach: 96 Masahiko Tanaka
  • Infield defense/base running coach: 92 Nobuyuki Okumura
  • Outfield defense/base running coach: 85 Akihisa Makida
  • General development coach: 87 Yasunaga Makishi
  • Development coach: 90 Fumitoshi Takano
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Chiba Lotte Marines 2010 Japan Series champions
1 Ikuhiro Kiyota
2 Makoto Imaoka
3 Saburo
6 Tadahito Iguchi
7 Tsuyoshi Nishioka
8 Toshiaki Imae (Japan Series MVP)
9 Kazuya Fukuura
10 Shoitsu Omatsu
11 Yuta Omine
12 Yuji Yoshimi
14 Tomohisa Otani
15 Hiroki Ueno
16 Hisao Heiuchi
17 Yoshihisa Naruse
19 Yuki Karakawa
21 Tatsuya Uchi
22 Tomoya Satozaki
25 Naotaka Takehara
27 Takuya Furuya
28 Tomohisa Nemoto
29 Shingo Ono
30 Yoshihiro Ito
31 Shunsuke Watanabe
32 Shunichi Nemoto
39 Masahiko Tanaka
40 Masato Watanabe
41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi
43 Toshio Saito
44 Hayden Penn
46 Hidetaka Kawagoe
48 Akichika Yamada
49 Yasuhiko Yabuta
52 Kim Tae-kyun
55 Takumi Kobe
58 Takeshi Aono
59 Kei Hosoya
65 Ryusuke Minami
66 Yoshifumi Okada
67 Naoki Matoba
69 Bill Murphy
Manager
78 Norifumi Nishimura
Coaches
Bench 76 Michio Aoyama
Hitting 75 Eiji Kanamori
Infield 72 Seiji Kamikawa
Outfield 73 Kenji Morozumi
Pitching 71 Takashi Nishimoto
Bullpen 79 Yuji Inoue
Catching 74 Kiyoshi Yamanaka
Coach 77 Kenji Yoshitsuru


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