Tomoaki Kanemoto

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tomoaki Kanemoto
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Apr 3, 1968(1968-04-03)
Age	56
Birthplace	Minami-ku
Country	Japan
Birth City	Shizuoka Prefecture
Horoscope	Aries

Tomoaki Kanemoto Biography

Tomoaki Kanemoto is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on April 3, 1968 in Minami-ku, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Tomoaki Kanemoto (Jin Ben Zhi , Kanemoto Tomoaki, born April 3 1968, from Minami-ku, Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball player and manager. As an athlete, he played 11 years playing with Hiroshima Carp. Hiroshima Carp before moving to the Hanshin Tigers in 2003, where he played for the next 10 years. He holds the record in the world for the longest consecutive game played without missing an entire inning (1492 which ended on April 18 in 2010).

The year 2000 was the time Kanemoto became the cleanup hitter for his team following Etoh’s departure to the Yomiuri Giants via free agency He did his best to make up for it by hitting .315 and registering 30 homers as well as 30 stolen bases, a record-breaking number and became the 7th player to ever in NPB history to record the distinction of having a .300-30-30 (batting average of home runs, home runs, steal bases) season. The following year (2001) Kanemoto set an all-new Japanese professional record in baseball by completing 1002 plate appearances in a row without making double play. He also drew 128 walks, the fifth highest number of walks in a single season NPB history, and the highest number of any other player, excluding Sadaharu Oh.

Kanemoto declared for free agency in the 2002 off-season. Despite recognizing that Kanemoto was an invaluable asset to the team, the low-budget Carp upheld their longtime policy of not pursuing any player of their own that opts to declare for free agency (an attempt by the Carp to hold down their payroll). After weeks of negotiations, Kanemoto eventually signed with the Central League rival Hanshin Tigers.

For the 2003 season, Kanemoto was given the uniform number 6 and appointed the Tigers’ new No. 3 hitter amidst hopes that he would change the very culture of the Tigers organization, a perennial cellar-dweller that had finished last in the Central League four times in the last five years. He committed himself to his new secondary role in the lineup, hitting just .289 with 19 home runs and 18 stolen bases but focusing on moving runners over and taking pitches so that teammate and fellow outfielder Norihiro Akahoshi could steal (he led the league with 61 stolen bases that year). Kanemoto played an integral role in leading the Tigers to their first league title in 18 years. In the Japan Series that followed the regular season, he hit four home runs, homering in three consecutive games and twice in one game (all three tying the previous Japan Series record). However, the Tigers lost to the Hawks four games to three, failing to win the championship.

Kanemoto hit more than .300 at the start of his professional career for only the second time the year 1996, as his team’s no. 5 hitter. He won the Central League monthly Most Valuable Player award in September. He also hit the first walk-off homer of his career, courtesy of Swallows relief pitcher Hiroto Kato on the 11th of September. He added a record-breaking 33 home runs to his .300-plus average and scored an impressive 82 RBI in 1997. He was unable to make it through 1998, hitting only .253 which included 21 homers, and the 74th RBI. He bounced back from a down year making .293 by racking up 94 RBIs and 34 homers (both the highest he’s ever hit in a career) in 1999, appearing throughout 136 of his games, and hitting for the cycle on April 24, in the game against Chunichi Dragons.

Tomoaki Kanemoto Net Worth

Tomoaki Kanemoto is one of the richest Baseball Player from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tomoaki Kanemoto 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kanemoto got a place on the team’s starting roster during his debut season in the team at Tohoku Fukushi University. The team he was part of included notable players such as the pitchers Kazuhiro Sasaki, Takashi Saito, the catcher Akihiro Yano and outfielder Koji Otsuka and shortstop/secondbaseman Chihiro Hamana who went to professional baseball they were able to participate in the four-game All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series. (Kanemoto and Yano play together as teammates on the Tigers bench in the present.) Although they lost during the third game of the tournament against Kinki University in the 38th annual tournament in 1989 (Kanemoto’s sophomore year) however, they finished as runners-up in the 37th as well as the 39th championships (in 1989 and 1990 respectively) and also won their first national title at their 40th tournament of 1991. Kanemoto’s senior season.

Disappointed by his performance and realizing that he’d soon be dismissed out of the club if he could not get better, Kanemoto began a rigorous exercise regimen. He then was able to, with the assistance of the coach at the time, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, found it into the lineup during the latter half of 1994 with 17 home runs in the course of the season. He continued to improve in his bat during 1995 with a batting average of .274 which included 24 home runs (including his first grand slam against Tigers left-handed hitter Toshiro Yufune on the 10th of August) and securing the first Best Nine Award.

Kanemoto was born in Minami-ku, Hiroshima, as a third-generation Korean (he obtained Japanese citizenship in 2001). He began playing baseball in the fourth grade for the Hiroshima Central Little League club, but quit the team after a year because he could not keep up during team practices. After playing both baseball and softball for various teams while attending junior high, Kanemoto enrolled in Koryo High School, where he became the team’s cleanup hitter in his second year (the equivalent of eleventh grade in the United States) and played in the outfield as well as at third base and pitcher. Although Koryo High had a reputation as a baseball powerhouse, they failed to reach any national tournaments in Kanemoto’s three years there. He hit 20 home runs during his high school career.

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Kanemoto recorded his 1999th career hit on April 6 2008, but did not get his 2000th hit (the 37th player to accomplish the feat in Japanese professional baseball history) until April 12 in a game against the BayStars. His hitless stretch of three games and 15 at-bats between his 1999th and 2000th career hit was an NPB record. (Incidentally, teammate Takahiro Arai, who played with Kanemoto on both the Carp and the Tigers, got his 1000th career hit in the same game.) He won his third monthly MVP award that June, hitting .413 with six home runs and 20 RBI. Though the Tigers narrowly lost the pennant race to the rival Giants, Kanemoto finished the season with a .307 average, 27 home runs and 108 RBI, bouncing back from a disappointing 2007 campaign. He underwent surgery on his knee for the second straight year during the off- season.

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Tomoaki Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Tomoaki Kanemoto celebrates birthday on April 3 of every year.

The Tigers’ former cleanup hitter, Kanemoto is regarded as one of the most accomplished hitters in Japanese professional baseball history. His 476 career home runs are the most by a left-handed hitter who throws right-handed and tenth overall on the all-time NPB list. Kanemoto retired as a player at the end of the 2012 season and rejoined the Tigers as their manager for the 2016 season, replacing Yutaka Wada. At the time of his retirement, Kanemoto was ninth on the all-time hit list for Japanese players across Japan and MLB. He is now 10th on the all-time list in both hits and home runs.