Hirokazu Ibata

Hirokazu Ibata
Hirokazu Ibata
	240px Ibata with the Chunichi Dragons
Yomiuri Giants – No. 82
	Infielder / Coach
	Born: May 12, 1975 (age 49)
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
NPB debut
	September 8, 1998, for the Chunichi Dragons
NPB statistics; (through 2012)
Games	1611
Batting average	.286
Hits	1,730
Home runs	51
Runs batted in	457
Teams
	As player Chunichi Dragons (1998–2013); Yomiuri Giants (2014–2015); As coach Yomiuri Giants (2016–present);
Career highlights and awards
	8× All-Star (2001, 2002, 2005, 2007–2010, 2011); 7× Golden Glove Award (2004–2009, 2012); 5× Best Nine Award (2002, 2004–2007); Asia Series MVP (2007); Japan Series champion (2007); 2013 World Baseball Classic All-Tournament Team;
	Last update: January 3, 2016

Hirokazu Ibata (Japanese:井端弘和, born May 12, 1975 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He plays second base for the Yomiuri Giants but is able to play at other positions.

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v t e Yomiuri Giants current roster
First squad	6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Hisayoshi Chono 8 Yasuyuki Kataoka 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei 10 Shinnosuke Abe 12 Takahiro Suzuki 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 19 Tomoyuki Sugano 20 Scott Mathieson 21 Toshiki Sakurai 22 Seiji Kobayashi 23 Ryoji Aikawa 25 Shuichi Murata 26 Tetsuya Utsumi 28 Kyosuke Takagi 30 Ryosuke Miyaguni 37 Seiji Tahara 38 Kazuma Okamoto 39 Miles Mikolas 40 Ken Katoh 42 Leslie Anderson 43 Shinnosuke Shigenobu 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi 49 Aaron Poreda 50 Chiaki Tone 54 Hayato Takagi 58 Soichiro Tateoka 68 Daiki Yoshikawa 90 Kazuto Taguchi 91 Takehiro Donoue
Second squad	00 Takayuki Terauchi 0 Daisuke Fujimura 13 Ryota Katsuki 17 Kan Otake 18 Toshiya Sugiuchi 27 Kazunari Sanematsu 31 Tetsuya Matsumoto 32 Itaru Hashimoto 35 Kentaro Nishimura 36 Daisuke Nakai 44 Taishi Ohta 45 Nobutaka Imamura 46 Hirotaka Yonahara 52 Shingo Usami 53 Genki Kawano 56 Yasuhiro Yamamoto 57 Katsuhiko Kumon 59 Yuki Koyama 60 Susumu Ohrui 61 Ren Wada 62 Yuki Egarashi 64 Masato Kiyashiki 65 Harutomo Tsuji 66 Atsushi Kita 67 Mizuki Tsuchida 69 Takuya Matsuzaki 91 Kota Nakagawa 92 Kentaro Taira 93 Daisuke Tatsumi 94 Hector Mendoza 99 Toru Anan
Coaching	Manager: 24 Yoshinobu Takahashi Second squad manager: 83 Masaki Saito