Hisataka Yukizawa

Hisataka Yukizawa (行沢 久隆)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 9", Weight 158 lb.

• School Chuo University
• High School PL Gakuen High School

• Born July 11, 1953 in Osaka, Osaka Japan

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Biographical Information

Hisataka Yukizawa has played in Nippon Pro Baseball and the Japanese national team.

Yukizawa was on the Japanese national team in the 1975 Asian Championship. The Nippon Ham Fighters drafted him in the second round of the 1975 NPB draft. Yukizawa shared the starting shortstop spot with Mitsuo Sugano in the first three years of his career. He played 113 games in 1977 with a .196/.235/.249 batting line, then hit .206/.239/.294 in 1978. The Fighters decided to name Sugano as their everyday shortstop due to Yukizawa's poor batting, then traded him to the Seibu Lions for Satoru Yoshioka in 1979.

Yukizawa only hit .218/.242/.330 in the first year with the Lions. He improved to .271/.293/.376 and secured the main utility man spot of the Lions in 1980. He extended his stable performance and hit .257/.292/.394, .219/.289/.391 and .241/.262/.328 in the next three seasons, winning the 1982 Japan Series and 1983 Japan Series. When superstar Hiroyuki Yamazaki retired in 1984, Yukizawa took his second base spot and hit .270/.309/.465 with 9 homers. The Osaka native back to the utility man role and hit .222/.250/.395 in 1985, then recorded a .213/.262/.246 batting line in 1986. He announced his retirement after the 1988 season, and became a coach. He was a coach for the Lions from 1992 to 2006.

Overall, Yukizawa had hit .230/.267/.349 in 13 seasons in NPB.