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Michihiro Ogasawara

Yomiuri Giants — No. 2
Infielder
Bats: Left	Throws: Right
Professional debut
1997 for the Nippon Ham Fighters
statistics (through 2010)
Batting average	.316
Home runs	371
RBI	1111
Teams
Nippon-Ham Fighters/Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (1997–2006) Yomiuri Giants (2007–present)
Career highlights and awards
2006 Pacific League MVP 2007 Central League MVP 1× Japan Series champion (2009)

Medal record
Ogasawara played for Japan in the 2006 World Baseball Classic.
Men's Baseball
Bronze	Athens 2004	Team Competition
World Baseball Classic
Gold	2006 San Diego	Team Competition
Gold	2009 Los Angeles	Team Competition

Michihiro Ogasawara (小笠原道大, born October 25, 1973 in Mihama-ku, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball player. He currently plays third base for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League. He played with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters from 1997 to 2006.

Career

Ogasawara is one of the most consistent hitters in Japanese baseball. He won two consecutive batting titles from 2002-2003, and led the league in home runs and RBIs in 2006 to win the Pacific League MVP award. He led the league in hits from 2000-2001, and has won 6 Japanese Golden Glove awards at first base and third base. He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece, winning a bronze medal. He also played for the Japanese national team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic, where he hit a home run off Esteban Loaiza at Angel Stadium of Anaheim. In 2006, he helped the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters win their first Pacific League pennant since 1981, sweeping the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the playoffs to reach the Japanese championship series against the Chunichi Dragons. The Fighters beat the Dragons in 5 games to win the Japanese championship series.

He became a free agent in 2006, and signed a four-year contract with the Yomiuri Giants during the off-season.

Career statistics

Nippon Professional Baseball
Year	Age	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	RBI	SB	AVG
1997	24	Nippon-Ham	44	94	7	21	10	2	0	35	7	1	.223
1998	25	Nippon-Ham	71	86	7	26	5	0	1	34	9	1	.302
1999	26	Nippon-Ham	135	547	90	156	34	4	25	273	83	3	.285
2000	27	Nippon-Ham	135	554	126	182	23	4	31	306	102	24	.329
2001	28	Nippon-Ham	140	576	108	195	40	2	32	335	86	1	.339
2002	29	Nippon-Ham	135	486	77	165	27	2	32	292	81	8	.340
2003	30	Nippon-Ham	128	445	83	160	34	1	31	289	100	8	.360
2004	31	Nippon-Ham	101	377	78	130	19	2	18	207	70	3	.345
2005	32	Nippon-Ham	133	514	91	145	27	2	37	287	92	2	.282
2006	33	Nippon-Ham	135	496	77	155	31	1	32	284	100	4	.313
2007	34	Yomiuri	142	566	95	177	33	1	31	305	88	4	.313
2008	35	Yomiuri	144	520	93	161	27	1	36	298	96	0	.310
2009	36	Yomiuri	139	514	78	159	25	1	31	279	107	2	.309
2010	37	Yomiuri	137	510	83	157	24	1	34	285	90	1	.308
2011	38	Yomiuri	55	191	9	42	7	0	1	52	10	0	.220

Statistics current as of July 22, 2011

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Awards
Preceded by Toshiya Sugiuchi	Pacific League MVP 2006	Succeeded by Yu Darvish
Preceded by Kosuke Fukudome	Central League MVP 2007	Succeeded by Alex Ramírez

Pacific League MVP Award

1950: Betto
1951: Yamamoto
1952: Yuki
1953: Okamoto
1954: Oshita
1955: Iida
1956: Nakanishi
1957: Inao
1958: Inao
1959: Sugiura
1960: Yamauchi
1961: Nomura
1962: Harimoto
1963: Nomura
1964: Stanka
1965: Nomura
1966: Nomura
1967: Adachi
1968: Yoneda
1969: Nagaike
1970: Kitaru
1971: Nagaike
1972: Fukumoto
1973: Nomura
1974: Kaneda
1975: Kato
1976: Yamada
1977: Yamada
1978: Yamada
1979: Manuel
1980: Kida
1981: Enatsu
1982: Ochiai
1983: Higashio
1984: G. Wells
1985: Ochiai
1986: Ishige
1987: Higashio
1988: Kadota
1989: Bryant
1990: Nomo
1991: T. Kaku
1992: Ishii
1993: Kudoh
1994: Suzuki
1995: Suzuki
1996: Suzuki
1997: Nishiguchi
1998: K. Matsui
1999: Kudoh
2000: Matsunaka
2001: Rhodes
2002: Cabrera
2003: Johjima
2004: Matsunaka
2005: Sugiuchi
2006: Ogasawara
2007: Darvish
2008: Iwakuma
2009: Darvish
2010: Wada
2011: Uchikawa

Central League MVP Award

1950: Kozuru
1951: Kawakami
1952: Bessho
1953: Otomo
1954: Sugishita
1955: Kawakami
1956: Bessho
1957: Yonamine
1958: Fujita
1959: Fujita
1960: Akiyama
1961: Nagashima
1962: Murayama
1963: Nagashima
1964: Oh
1965: Oh
1966: Nagashima
1967: Oh
1968: Nagashima
1969: Oh
1970: Oh
1971: Nagashima
1972: Horiuchi
1973: Oh
1974: Oh
1975: Yamamoto
1976: Oh
1977: Oh
1978: Wakamatsu
1979: Enatsu
1980: Yamamoto
1981: Egawa
1982: Nakao
1983: Hara
1984: Kinugasa
1985: Bass
1986: Kitabeppu
1987: Yamakura
1988: G. Kaku
1989: Cromartie
1990: Saito
1991: Sasaoka
1992: Howell
1993: Furuta
1994: Kuwata
1995: O'Malley
1996: H. Matsui
1997: Furuta
1998: Sasaki
1999: Noguchi
2000: H. Matsui
2001: Petagine
2002: H. Matsui
2003: Igawa
2004: Kawakami
2005: Kanemoto
2006: Fukudome
2007: Ogasawara
2008: Ramírez
2009: Ramírez
2010: Wada
2011: Asao

v t e Yomiuri Giants current roster

First squad	00 Takayuki Terauchi 0 Daisuke Fujimura 2 Michihiro Ogasawara 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Hisayoshi Chono 8 Yoshitomo Tani 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei 10 Shinnosuke Abe 12 Takahiro Suzuki 13 Yasunari Takagi 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 18 Toshiya Sugiuchi 20 Scott Mathieson 22 Daisuke Ochi 24 Yoshinobu Takahashi 25 Shuichi Murata 26 Tetsuya Utsumi 27 Kazunari Sanematsu 30 Ryosuke Miyaguni 35 Kentaro Nishimura 36 John Bowker 40 Ken Katoh 47 Tetsuya Yamaguchi 50 Ryuichi Kajimae 52 Tomoya Inzen 54 D. J. Houlton 59 Satoshi Fukuda 93 Shoki Kasahara 95 Masumi Hoshino

Second squad	11 Yuya Kubo 17 Shun Tono 28 Norihito Kaneto 29 Hiroki Sanada 31 Tetsuya Matsumoto 32 Itaru Hashimoto 33 Yoshihito Ishii 37 Hideki Sunaga 38 Hideki Asai 39 Levi Romero 41 Ryuya Matsumoto 43 Junpei Ono 44 Jin Nakatani 45 Takahiko Nomaguchi 46 Ryuji Ichioka 48 Kenji Yano 49 Dicky Gonzalez 51 Shigeyuki Furuki 53 Takayuki Takaguchi 55 Taishi Ohta 56 Hiroki Nakazawa 57 Kyosuke Takagi 61 Daisuke Nakai 62 Yuki Egarashi 63 Seiji Tahara 64 Masato Kiyashiki 65 Nobutaka Imamura 66 Daijiro Tanaka 68 Taichi Tanaka 69 Yuya Ichikawa 94 Yuki Koyama 96 Yi-Hao Lin 98 Takanobu Tsujiuchi

Coaching	Manager: 88 Tatsunori Hara Second squad manager: 78 Masahiro Kawai

v t e Japan 2006 World Baseball Classic Champions Roster (1st Title)

1 Akinori Iwamura \| 2 Michihiro Ogasawara \| 3 Nobuhiko Matsunaka \| 5 Kazuhiro Wada \| 6 Hitoshi Tamura \| 7 Tsuyoshi Nishioka \| 8 Toshiaki Imae \| 9 Tatsuhiko Kinjoh \| 10 Shinya Miyamoto \| 11 Naoyuki Shimizu \| 12 Soichi Fujita \| 15 Tomoyuki Kubota \| 17 Kosuke Fukudome \| 18 Daisuke Matsuzaka \| 19 Koji Uehara \| 20 Yasuhiko Yabuta \| 21 Tsuyoshi Wada \| 22 Tomoya Satozaki \| 23 Norichika Aoki \| 24 Kyuji Fujikawa \| 25 Takahiro Arai \| 27 Motonobu Tanishige \| 31 Shunsuke Watanabe \| 40 Akinori Otsuka \| 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi \| 47 Toshiya Sugiuchi \| 51 Ichiro Suzuki \| 52 Munenori Kawasaki \| 59 Ryoji Aikawa \| 61 Hirotoshi Ishii／Takahiro Mahara

Manager 89 Sadaharu Oh \| Coach 84 Kazuhiro Takeda \| Coach 85 Hatsuhiko Tsuji \| Coach 86 Yoshitaka Katori \| Coach 87 Yasunori Oshima \| Coach 88 Sumio Hirota

Japan 2009 World Baseball Classic Champions Roster (2nd Title)

Manager 83 Tatsunori Hara
Coach 72 Tsutomu Ito
Coach 71 Hisashi Yamada
Coach 92 Tsuyoshi Yoda
Coach 81 Kazunori Shinozuka
Coach 63 Nobuhiro Takashiro

Persondata
Name	Ogasawara, Michihiro
Alternative names
Short description	Baseball player
Date of birth	October 25, 1973
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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