Hiroshi Yagi
Japanese baseball player and coach
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Hiroshi Yagi (八木 裕; born June 8, 1965) 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] Yagi was hospitalized with swelling and bleeding on the brain after being hit in the head by a broken bat while in the dugout during a game on September 9, 2025.[3]
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| Hiroshi Yagi | |
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Yagi with the Fresno Suns in 1988 | |
| Coach / Infielder / Outfielder | |
| Born: June 8, 1965 Tamano, Okayama, Japan | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| NPB debut | |
| May 12, 1987, for the Hanshin Tigers | |
| Last NPB appearance | |
| October 10, 2004, for the Hanshin Tigers | |
| NPB statistics | |
| Batting average | .247 |
| Home runs | 126 |
| Runs batted in | 383 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Teams | |
| As player
As coach
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| Career highlights and awards | |
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