Tatsunori Hara

Tatsunori Hara
原辰徳
Tatsunori Hara; 原辰徳
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	Manager
	Born: July 22, 1958 (age 65); Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
NPB debut
	April 4, 1981, for the Yomiuri Giants
Last appearance
	October 8, 1995, for the Yomiuri Giants
NPB statistics
Batting average	.279
Hits	1675
Home runs	382
RBIs	1093
Teams
	As player Yomiuri Giants (1981–1995); As manager Yomiuri Giants (2002–2003, 2006–2015); Japan national team (2009); As coach Yomiuri Giants (1999–2001);
Career highlights and awards
	1981 Central League Rookie of the Year; 1983 Central League MVP; 3× Japan Series champion (2002, 2009, 2012);

Tatsunori Hara (原辰徳, Hara Tatsunori^?, born July 22, 1958 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan) is the current manager for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball. He also played for the Yomiuri Giants during his professional baseball career from 1981 to 1995. Hara led the Japan national baseball team to victory in the final of the 2009 World Baseball Classic.^[1]

His nephew is a professional pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano for the Giants.

References

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Shigeo Nagashima Tsuneo Horiuchi	Yomiuri Giants manager 2002–2003 2006–2015	Succeeded by Tsuneo Horiuchi Yoshinobu Takahashi

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