Kazuyoshi Tatsunami

Kazuyoshi Tatsunami
立浪和義
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami; 立浪和義
	Hitting grounders in Chatan, Okinawa, November 6, 2022
	Infielder / Manager
	Born: August 19, 1969 (age 56); Settsu, Osaka, Japan
	Batted: Left Threw: Right
NPB debut
	April 8, 1988, for the Chunichi Dragons
Last NPB appearance
	October 24, 2009, for the Chunichi Dragons
NPB statistics
Batting average	.285
Hits	2,480
Home runs	171
Runs batted in	1,037
	Stats at Baseball Reference
Teams
	As player Chunichi Dragons (1988–2009); As coach Chunichi Dragons (2008–2009); As manager Chunichi Dragons (2022–2024);
Career highlights and awards
	Japan Series Champion (2007); Central League Rookie of the Year (1988); 2× Best Nine Award (2B: 1996, 3B: 2004); 5× Golden Glove Award (SS: 1988, 2B: 1995-1997, 3B: 2003); 11× NPB All-Star (1988, 1991, 1994-1998, 2000, 2002-2004); 2× Most runs scored (1991, 1994); Most times on base (1996); Hit for the cycle (22 August 1997 vs Hanshin Tigers at Nagoya Dome);
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	2019

Batting average.285

Home runs171

Runs batted in1,037

Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (立浪和義, Tatsunami Kazuyoshi; born August 19, 1969) is a former Japanese professional baseball infielder and manager. He played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chunichi Dragons from 1988 to 2009. He was drafted in the first round in the 1987 NPB Draft.

v t e Members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
1950s inductees	Matsutarō Shōriki (1959) Hiroshi Hiraoka (1959) Yukio Aoi (1959) Shin Hashido (1959) Kiyoshi Oshikawa (1959) Michimaro Ono (1959) Jiro Kuji (1959) Eiji Sawamura (1959) Iso Abe (1959)
1960s inductees	Victor Starffin (1960) Atsushi Kono (1960) Yaichiro Sakurai (1960) Chujun Tobita (1960) Yutaka Ikeda (1962) Haruyasu Nakajima (1963) Tadashi Wakabayashi (1964) Masaru Kageura (1965) Tetsuharu Kawakami (1965) Kazuto Tsuruoka (1965) Tsunetaro Moriyama (1966) Ichizō Kobayashi (1968) Yoriyasu Arima (1969)
1970s inductees	Shunichi Amachi (1970) Nobuaki Nidegawa (1970) Komajiro Tamura (1970) Tokuro Konishi (1971) Rihachi Mizuno (1971) Shuichi Ishimoto (1972) Hirozo Utsumi (1973) Sadasuke Amano (1973) Sadayoshi Fujimoto (1974) Fumio Fujimura (1974) Hideo Fujimoto (1976) Shigeru Mizuhara (1977) Michio Nishizawa (1977) Kenjiro Matsuki (1978) Shinji Hamazaki (1978) Takehiko Bessho (1979)
1980s inductees	Hiroshi Ohshita (1980) Makoto Kozuru (1980) Shigeru Chiba (1980) Tokuji Iida (1981) Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (1981) Osamu Mihara (1983) Uchimura Yushi (1983) Shinji Kirihara (1984) Shigeru Sugishita (1985) Katsumi Shiraishi (1985) Atsushi Aramaki (1985) Takeo Akuta (1988) Shigeo Nagashima (1988) Kaoru Betto (1988) Masaichi Nagata (1988) Saburo Yokozawa (1988) Yukio Nishimoto (1988) Masaichi Kaneda (1988) Hidenosuke Shima (1989) Katsuya Nomura (1989) Jiro Noguchi (1989)
1990s inductees	Juzo Sanada (1990) Isao Harimoto (1990) Shigeru Makino (1991) Osamu Tsutsui (1991) Kichiro Shimaoka (1991) Tatsuro Hirooka (1992) Michinori Tsubouchi (1992) Masao Yoshida (1992) Yoshio Yoshida (1992) Kazuhisa Inao (1993) Minoru Murayama (1993) Sadaharu Oh (1994) Wally Yonamine (1994) Shosei Go (1995) Tadashi Sugiura (1995) Tokichiro Ishii (1995) Motoshi Fujita (1996) Sachio Kinugasa (1996) Katsuo Osugi (1997) Futoshi Nakanishi (1999) Yoshinori Hirose (1999) Takeshi Koba (1999) Sadao Kondoh (1999) Ichiro Yoshikuni (1999)
2000s inductees	Tetsuya Yoneda (2000) Rikuo Nemoto (2001) Masaaki Koyama (2001) Kazuhiro Yamauchi (2002) Keishi Suzuki (2002) Yutaka Fukumoto (2002) Kenjiro Tamiya (2002) Lefty O'Doul (2002) Masaoka Shiki (2002) Toshiharu Ueda (2003) Junzo Sekine (2003) Horace Wilson (2003) Sakae Suzuka (2003) Akira Ohgi (2004) Noboru Akiyama (2004) Choji Murata (2005) Masaaki Mori (2005) Masayori Shimura (2005) Hiromitsu Kadota (2006) Morimichi Takagi (2006) Hisashi Yamada (2006) Yasumitsu Toyoda (2006) Hiromori Kawashima (2006) Takao Kajimoto (2007) Reiichi Matsunaga (2007) Seiichi Shima (2008) Koji Yamamoto (2008) Tsuneo Horiuchi (2008) Noboru Aota (2009) Tsutomu Wakamatsu (2009)
2010s inductees	Osamu Higashio (2010) Shinichi Eto (2010) Hiromitsu Ochiai (2011) Mutsuo Minagawa (2011) Manabu Kitabeppu (2012) Tsunemi Tsuda (2012) Yutaka Ohno (2013) Yoshiro Sotokoba (2013) Hideo Nomo (2014) Koji Akiyama (2014) Kazuhiro Sasaki (2014) Atsuya Furuta (2015) Kihachi Enomoto (2016) Kimiyasu Kudoh (2016) Masaki Saito (2016) Tsutomu Ito (2017) Masaji Hiramatsu (2017) Senichi Hoshino (2017) Hideki Matsui (2018) Tomoaki Kanemoto (2018) Tatsunori Hara (2018) Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (2019) Hiroshi Gondoh (2019)
2020s inductees	Koichi Tabuchi (2020) Yukichi Maeda (2020) Renzo Ishii (2020) Kazuo Sayama (2021) Katsuji Kawashima (2021) Shigeyoshi Matsumae (2022) Shingo Takatsu (2022) Masa Yamamoto (2022) Alex Ramírez (2023) Randy Bass (2023) Yūji Koseki (2023) Hiroki Kuroda (2024) Motonobu Tanishige (2024) Ichiro Suzuki (2025) Hitoki Iwase (2025) Hiroya Tomizawa (2025) Masayuki Kakefu (2025) Hideki Kuriyama (2026)

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National	Japan
Academics	CiNii

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Kazuyoshi Tatsunami 立浪和義
Hitting grounders in Chatan, Okinawa, November 6, 2022
Infielder / Manager
Born: (1969-08-19) August 19, 1969 (age 56) Settsu, Osaka, Japan
Batted: Left Threw: Right
NPB debut
April 8, 1988, for the Chunichi Dragons
Last NPB appearance
October 24, 2009, for the Chunichi Dragons
NPB statistics
Batting average	.285
Hits	2,480
Home runs	171
Runs batted in	1,037
Stats at Baseball Reference

Teams
As player Chunichi Dragons (1988–2009) As coach Chunichi Dragons (2008–2009) As manager Chunichi Dragons (2022–2024)
Career highlights and awards
Japan Series Champion (2007) Central League Rookie of the Year (1988) 2× Best Nine Award (2B: 1996, 3B: 2004) 5× Golden Glove Award (SS: 1988, 2B: 1995-1997, 3B: 2003) 11× NPB All-Star (1988, 1991, 1994-1998, 2000, 2002-2004) 2× Most runs scored (1991, 1994) Most times on base (1996) Hit for the cycle (22 August 1997 vs Hanshin Tigers at Nagoya Dome)
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	2019