finalyear debutyear statyear statvalue finalteam birth_date update finaldate team image_size finalleague number debutteam name statlabel throws debutleague birth_place debutdate bats statleague position article_title
2002 1984 2002 .262 304 1521 yakult swallows 17 december 1965 19 january 2014 october 17 tokyo yakult swallows 200 npb 96 yakult swallows takahiro ikeyama batting average home runs hits right npb amagasaki , hyōgo , japan october 9 right npb shortstop , third baseman / coach takahiro ikeyama

takahiro ikeyama

takahiro ikeyama -lrb- 池山 隆寛 , born december 17 , 1965 in amagasaki , hyōgo , japan -rrb- is a former nippon professional baseball infielder .
a slugging shortstop , ikeyama played for the yakult swallows his entire career , from 1984 -- 2002 .
ikeyama was a five-time pacific league best nine award-winner and a seven-time npb all-star .
he won the 1992 pacific league golden glove award .
ikeyama was part of the central league-champion swallows team that lost the 1992 japan series to seibu .
he was a member of the 1993 and 1995 swallows squads that won the japan series those years .
some years after retiring as a player , ikeyama joined the coaching staff of the tohoku rakuten golden eagles ; he has been a coach with the swallows since 2011 .
jim albright , expert on japanese professional baseball , ranks ikeyama as among the top shortstops in npb history , on the swallows ' franchise all-star team , on the 1990s central league all-star team , and on the overall 1990s all-star team .
