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Munenori Kawasaki Biography

Munenori Kawasaki is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on June 3, 1981 in Aira, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. He is a Japanese baseball player, best known for his eight-time All Star performance in the Nippon Professional Baseball League. In 2012, he made his MLB debut for the Seattle Mariners.

Both he and Ichiro Suzu were both MLB players who started in Japan.

Kawasaki remained largely an unknown on the national level during his high school career, partly due to his team’s failing to make any national tournaments in those three years. Still, he made a name for himself locally, earning the nickname Satsurō, a portmanteau derived from Satsuma (the name given to a former province of Japan in present-day western Kagoshima) and former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki’s first name for the similarities in their playing styles. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 1999 NPB amateur draft by the then-Fukuoka Daiei Hawks.

Kawasaki earned the starting shortstop job for the Hawks’ nigun team (Japanese for “minor league” or “farm team”) in his rookie season (2000), hitting .300 and finishing fifth in the Western League in batting average that year. In 2001, his second season in the pros, he came second (to only then-Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles outfielder Akihito Moritani) with 29 stolen bases. He made his debut at the ichigun (major league) level on October 3 against the Orix BlueWave as the starting shortstop and No. 2 hitter, but went hitless in four at-bats that year.

In 2013, his son Issho was birthed.

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In 2003, Kawasaki started in the Hawks’ season opener for the first time in his career because of injuries to veteran Yusuke Torigoe, starting at shortstop as the team’s No. 2 hitter. After Torigoe returned to the lineup, Kawasaki moved over to third base, wreaking havoc on the basepaths along with leadoff hitter Arihito Muramatsu and Iguchi (who sat in the 3-hole). He hit his first career home run on July 28 off Buffaloes right-hander Ken Kadokura, and while he finished the season just short of .300, he played his first full season at the ichigun level and hit .294 with two homers, 51 RBI and 30 steals, playing a key role in the Hawks’ league title and eventual Japan Series championship.

Munenori Kawasaki Net Worth

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

During his first season as a Hawks member, he hit.300.

He was twice awarded the Best Nine Award in the NPBL for shortstops.

Munenori Kawasaki (川﨑 宗則 , Kawasaki Munenori, born June 3, 1981) is a retired Japanese professional baseball shortstop and second baseman. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, and Chicago Cubs. He played for the Japanese national team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics. Following the Chicago Cubs’ 2016 World Series championship, Kawasaki joined Daisuke Matsuzaka and Koji Uehara as the only Japanese players to have won championships in the World Baseball Classic, Japan Series and World Series.

Listed at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) and 175 lb (79 kg), Kawasaki is best described as a slap hitter, utilizing his exceptional bat control and speed to get on base (often bunting safely to do so). However, he is somewhat lacking in power, even for a middle infielder, having never hit more than four home runs (2004, 2005, 2007) or recorded more than 31 extra-base hits (2004, 2006) for a season.

Kawasaki became the Hawks’ starting shortstop for the 2004 season, playing in all 133 regular season games and hitting over .300 for the first time in his career. He led the league in both hits (174, tied with teammate and cleanup hitter Nobuhiko Matsunaka) and steals (42) and was chosen to both the Best Nine and Golden Glove awards. Kawasaki declined the team’s offer to change his uniform number from 52 to 8 during the off-season. (The number is an homage to Ichiro Suzuki, who wears the number 51; Kawasaki idolized Suzuki from a young age and picked the number because he wanted to “follow” in Suzuki’s footsteps.)

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Kawasaki hit .367 in the Western League the following year (2002), winning the batting title despite falling short of the required number of plate appearances because of league regulations. He got the first hit of his career on June 15 against right-hander Jeremy Powell, then of the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, and his first stolen base on June 19 against the Seibu Lions. He was called up to the ichigun team again in September to fill in for Tadahito Iguchi as the team’s regular second baseman while Iguchi missed time due to injury and also played in the 15th IBAF International Cup as a member of the Japanese national team.

Coming off a championship in the inaugural World Baseball Classic, Kawasaki bounced back in 2006, hitting a career-high .312 and winning the Pacific League Best Nine and Golden Glove awards at shortstop (each for the second time). He also received the most fan votes at shortstop for the MLB Japan All-Star Series held in November, but withdrew from the tournament after injuring the ring finger on his right hand during Fall Training.

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Kawasaki had a somewhat disappointing season in 2005, seeing his batting average drop off from .303 in 2004 to .271 and his on-base percentage from .359 to just .326, knocking in just 36 runs and stealing only 21 bases. Despite this, he was named to the Japanese national team to play in the inaugural World Baseball Classic during the off-season.

Facts & Trivia

Munenori Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Munenori Kawasaki celebrates birthday on June 3 of every year.

Kawasaki suffered various injuries in the 2007 season, twice spending time in the minors to rehab and playing just 95 games (though he hit .329 and slugged .428, both career highs).

Does Munenori Kawasaki still play?

On September 7, 2020, Kawasaki signed with the Tochigi Golden Braves of the Baseball Challenge League. On September 13, 2020, he hit a home run on the first pitch he saw in his debut. On April 8, 2021, Kawasaki agreed to re-sign with the Golden Braves for the 2021 season.

Can Munenori Kawasaki speak English?

Munenori Kawasaki is 31 years old and speaks almost no English, despite spending his first big league season in Seattle last year where he played sparingly (104 at bats, .

Why did Kawasaki leave Blue Jays?

Former Toronto Blue Jays fan favourite Munenori Kawasaki is temporarily stepping away from baseball due to an injury according to various Japanese media outlets.

How many Japanese baseball players are in the MLB?

A total of 64 players have come from Japan to play in MLB, and that includes eight who made an MLB appearance in 2021. In 1964, the San Francisco Giants promoted Masanori Murakami, who was one of three players on loan from the Nippon Professional League, to their September roster.

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