Takashi Toritani
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Toritani with the Hanshin Tigers
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| Hanshin Tigers – No. 1 | |||
| Shortstop | |||
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Born: June 26, 1981 Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan |
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| NPB debut | |||
| April 2, 2004, for the Hanshin Tigers | |||
| NPB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Batting average | .282 | ||
| Hits | 1872 | ||
| Home runs | 133 | ||
| Runs batted in | 755 | ||
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| Last updated on: February 15, 2016 | |||
Takashi Toritani (鳥谷 敬 Toritani Takashi?, born June 26, 1981) is a Japanese shortstop with the Hanshin Tigers.
Toritani was one of the most highly coveted position players in years as a senior for Waseda University in 2003. He holds the current Nippon Professional Baseball record for most consecutive games played without missing an inning as a shortstop, and has appeared in every Tigers game for 10 years from 2005 to 2014 (1,444 regular season games). Captain of the club since the start of the 2013 season, on October 31, 2014 Toritani informed Tigers' management of his wish to exercise his free agent right to transfer to the American Major League Baseball.
Toritani was born in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, the eldest of three brothers. He played for the Higashimurayama Junior Mets, Ozakudai Little League Club in his elementary school days in Higashimurayama and Hamura, and Mizuho Senior in his junior high school days in Hamura.
He played both shortstop and pitcher at Seibō Gakuen Senior High School in Saitama. He played in the 81st National High School Baseball Championship in 1999, coming on in relief in Seibō Gakuen's first game against Hita-Rinkō High School (the Ōita champions) and clocking 143 km/h (89 mph), but his team lost 5-3.
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