Shinnosuke Abe
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 Abe with the Yomiuri Giants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yomiuri Giants – No. 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catcher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: March 20, 1979 Urayasu, Chiba, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bats: Left Throws: Right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2001, for the Yomiuri Giants | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career statistics (through 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .283 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 399 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 1,258 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hits | 2,085 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shinnosuke Abe (阿部 慎之助, Abe Shinnosuke, born March 20, 1979 in Urayasu, Chiba) is a Japanese professional baseball player with the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He is the captain of the Giants.
He has played for the Japanese national team since 1999 as a catcher. He was on the Japanese team roster of the 2004 MLB Japan All-Star Series and the 2006 MLB Japan All-Star Series. He has twice been named the MVP of the Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series, in 2007 (Game 1) and 2010 (Game 1).
In the 2009 Japan Series, won by Abe's Giants 4 games to 2 over the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, he was named the Most Valuable Player.
In 2012, after hitting .340 with 27 home runs and 104 RBIs, Abe was named the Central League Most Valuable Player. In addition, Abe was the co-recipient (along with teammate Tatsunori Hara) of the 20112 Matsutaro Shoriki Award.
He was the captain of Japanese national team in 2013 WBC, and hit 2 home runs in the same inning against the Netherlands, becoming the first and only player to achieve such a feat in the history of the WBC.
With 396 career home runs (through August 2018), Abe ranks #20 on the NPB career list.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Japan Baseball Daily
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- 1979 births
- 2009 World Baseball Classic players
- 2013 World Baseball Classic players
- Asian Games medalists in baseball
- Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
- Baseball players at the 1998 Asian Games
- Baseball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Baseball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Baseball players from Chiba Prefecture
- Chuo University alumni
- Japanese baseball players
- Living people
- Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
- Nippon Professional Baseball catchers
- Nippon Professional Baseball first basemen
- Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners
- Olympic baseball players of Japan
- People from Urayasu, Chiba
- Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture
- Yomiuri Giants players
- Japanese baseball catcher stubs