Batting average .260 Role Baseball player Salary 80 million JPY (2013) Name Hichori Morimoto Spouse Yuumi (m. 2012) | RBIs 254 Weight 81 kg Hits 867 Height 1.85 m | |
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Current team Yokohama DeNA BayStars (#5 / Outfielder) Similar People Yuumi, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Naoto Watanabe, Kensuke Tanaka, Kazuhito Tadano | ||
Japanese Baseball STAR Hichori Morimoto 森本 稀哲 signing autographs
Hichori Morimoto (Japanese: 森本 稀哲, Korean: 이희철, Hanja: 李稀哲, born January 31, 1981 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseballer of Korean descent for the Saitama Seibu Lions. He was the number 4 draft pick for the Fighters in 1999. For years, he was the backup for the most popular player in the league, Tsuyoshi Shinjo. After the 2006 season in which the Fighters won the Japan Series, Shinjo announced his retirement, in which Morimoto then took over Shinjo's center field spot, and also his number 1 (Morimoto had worn number 46 when Shinjo was playing).
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