Hideki Hashigami

Hideki Hashigami (橋上 秀樹)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11", Weight 176 lb.

• High School Yasuda Gakuen High School

• Born November 4, 1965 in Funabashi, Chiba Japan

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Biographical Information

Hideki Hashigami played for over a decade in Nippon Pro Baseball.

Hashigami was picked by the Yakult Swallows in the 3rd round of the 1983 NPB draft. He debuted with the big club in 1988, going 2 for 16 with 9 runs in 35 games. He hit .346/.358/.462 in 42 games in 1989 as a backup outfielder. He was 5 for 22 with a triple and four walks in 1990. He batted .287/.347/.431 in 59 games in 1991. In 1992, he topped 100 games for the only time and hit .227/.328/.381. He was 5 for 8 with a walk, double, homer and five runs in the 1992 Japan Series while backing up Shinji Hata, Tetsuya Iida and Yukio Arai in the outfield. Yakult fell in seven games despite Hashigami's heroics.

The Funabashi native hit .305/.375/.381 in 49 games in 1993 then went 1 for 9 in the 1993 Japan Series, again backing up Arai, Iida and Hata while Yakult won it all. He was 1 for 7 in 1994. In 34 games as a sub in 1995, Hideki hit .298/.403/.474. He was 0 for 1 in the 1995 Japan Series, won hy the Swallows. He was 4 for 24 with a double and three walks in 1996. The Swallows then traded him Nippon Ham Fighters for cash in 1997, and Hideki was 9 for 45 with eight walks and a double. He hit .301/.366/.373 in 94 plate appearances over 91 games in 1998 then was 6 for 28 with two doubles, a home run and eight walks in 1999. The Fighters then released him, and Hashigami signed with the Hanshin Tigers. However, he failed to return to the big club in 2000, and he announced his retirement.

After retiring, Hashigami was the minor league fielding coach for the newly-founded Rakuten Golden Eagles from 2005 to 2006, and he became their bench coach from 2007 to 2009. He managed the Oisix Niigata Albirex Baseball Club in 2011, and he moved to the Yomiuri Giants as their strategy coach from 2012 to 2013. He was Yomiuri's batting coach in 2014, and he returned to the Golden Eagles as bench coach in 2015. The Seibu Lions then named Hashigami their new strategy coach from 2016 to 2018, and he managed the minors team of the Swallows in 2019. He was the manager of Oisix from 2020 to 2024, and he returned to the Giants as strategy coach in 2025.

Overall, in 543 games in NPB, Hashigami put up a .265/.346/.383 batting line.

==Source==s

• Wiki Japan
• Japanbaseballdaily.com