Batting average .259 Role Baseball player Salary 89 million JPY (2013) Name Makoto Kaneko Spouse Sayaka Shiraki (m. 1999) | Hits 1551 Weight 84 kg Home runs 84 Height 1.85 m | |
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Current team Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (#8 / Infielder) Similar People Sayaka Shiraki, Naoyuki Shimizu, Hideki Kuriyama, Michihiro Ogasawara, Yoshinobu Takahashi | ||
Makoto Kaneko (金子 誠, born November 8, 1975) is a professional baseball player from Abiko, Chiba, Japan. He is an infielder for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Japanese baseball team.
Kaneko won the Pacific League rookie of the year award in 1996. He won two golden glove awards at second base before being converted to shortstop.
He joined the Japanese olympic baseball team for the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal.
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