Name Masaaki Koike Career start 1999 Weight 88 kg | Height 1.82 m Role Baseball player Salary 30 million JPY (2013) | |
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Number 8 (Yokohama DeNA BayStars / Outfielder) Similar People Taketoshi Goto, Ikki Shimamura, Kiyoshi Nakahata | ||
Masaaki Koike (小池 正晃, Koike Masaaki, born April 20, 1980 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan) is a professional Japanese baseball player.
Koike played outfield and infield for the Chunichi Dragons (2008–2011) and for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars (2012–2013). Koike announced his retirement on October 1, 2013 and his final at-bat, hit a home run.
In 2014, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars hired Koike as first team batting coach.
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