Seiji Tomashino

Seiji Tomashino (笘篠 誠治)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11", Weight 160 lb.

• High School Uenomiya High School

• Born June 22, 1964 in Ibaraki, Osaka Japan

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Biographical Information

The older brother of Kenji Tomashino, Seiji Tomashino played in Nippon Pro Baseball for 13 years.

Tomashino was drafted by the Seibu Lions in the second round of the 1982 NPB draft. He split short with Shawn Barton for the 1985 San Jose Giants, hitting .296/.372/.396. He first appeared regularly with Seibu in 1986 after a few years in the minors, hitting .278/.313/.380 in a limited role that year. In 1987, Seiji had 277 AB (the most he would get in any season) but hit just .220/.257/.350, stole 14 bases in 19 tries and laid down 21 sacrifices. Playing over 50 games but getting under 85 AB each year, Tomashino hit .282/.329/.437 in 1988 and .185/.214/.235 in 1989.

In 1990, Seiji began a run of fairly productive seasons in which he saw regular time off the bench. He hit .271/.333/.350 (11 SB in 12 tries) in 1990, and he collected 2 infield singled in the 1990 Nippon Series Game 4; the Lions swept the Yomiuri Giants. Tomashino had a .277/.329/.345 batting line in 1991, .295/.355/.398 (16-20 in SB) in 1992, .258/.315/.335 in 1993 and .266/.327/.342 (11-12 in SB) in 1994 (in which he played primarily left field - he played every infield position as well during his career). In 1995, the 31-year-old slipped to .224/.288/.293 in reduced time, then bounced back to .300/.324/.367 in 30 AB in 1996, mostly as a pinch-hitter. In '97, Seiji finished his career with a .150/.227/.150 campaign.

After retiring, Tomashino became the minor league fielding coach for Seibu from 1998 to 1999, and he was their top team base running and fielding coach from 2000 to 2007. He moved to the Chunichi Dragons as fielding coach from 2008 to 2011, and the [[Softbank Hawks[[ named him their new fielding coach from 2012 to 2014. Tomashino became the fielding coach for the Rakuten Golden Eagles in 2015, and he moved to the Yakult Swallows as their fielding coach from 2016 to 2017. He was a broadcaster for DAZN in 2018, and he returned to the Golden Eagles as fielding coach from 2019 to 2020.

Overall, Tomashino hit .256/.307/.346 with 381 hits and 90 steals in 13 seasons in NPB.

Source

• Japanbaseballdaily.com by Gary Garland
• Wiki Japan