Batting average .269 Role Baseball player Salary 35 million JPY (2013) Name Shogo Akiyama Career start 2011 | RBI 116 Weight 86 kg Home runs 18 Height 1.83 m | |
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Shogo Akiyama (秋山 翔吾, Akiyama Shōgo, born April 16, 1988 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa) is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.Shogo Akiyama has been an outfielder in Nippon Pro Baseball.
Akiyama won three Best Nine honors in college and won batting and RBI titles there. The Seibu Lions took him in the third round of the 2010 draft. He made his NPB debut on April 12, 2011, as the #9 hitter and right fielder on Opening Day against Yu Darvish and the Nippon Ham Fighters. He went 0 for 2 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch. The next day, he got his first hit, a RBI single off Brian Wolfe. He hit .232/.285/.317 with 6 triples in 284 AB for his rookie year. He tied Shota Ishimine for fifth in the Pacific League in three-baggers. He got one vote for the 2011 Pacific League Rookie of the Year Award.
In 2012, the speedy outfielder batted .293/.343/.404 with a league-leading 8 triples. He was 6th in the PL in average (between Seiichi Uchikawa and Atsunori Inaba) and was 9th in slugging (between Kazuo Matsui and Dai-Kang Yang).
In 2015, Akiyama set the NPB record for hits in a single season with 216, surpassing the 214 collected by Matt Murton of the Hanshin Tigers in 2010.
