Kaoru Nimura

Kaoru Nimura (仁村 薫)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 9", Weight 165 lb.

• School Waseda University
• High School Kawagoe Shogyo High School

• Born May 9, 1959 in Kawagoe, Saitama Japan

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Biographical Information

Kaoru Nimura is the brother of Toru Nimura. Like his brother, he was a pitcher in high school and college who spent his Nippon Pro Baseball career as a position player. The Yomiuri Giants took him in the 6th round of the 1981 NPB draft. By the time he came up in 1984, he was an outfielder; he was 1 for 12 with a walk and 5 runs in 26 games, presumably used frequently as a pinch-runner. He hit .238/.284/.381 in 69 plate appearances over 72 games in 1985 and was 4 for 23 with two doubles in 1986. He played 98 games in 1987 and put up a .212/.243/.288 line in his 70 plate appearances. He did not play in Yomiuri's six-game loss to the Seibu Lions in the 1987 Japan Series. The starting outfielders for Yomiuri were Sadaaki Yoshimura, Norihiro Komada and Warren Cromartie.

Moving to the Chunichi Dragons in 1988, Nimura hit .287/.304/.509 with 7 homers and 24 RBI in 108 at-bats. He fell to .230/.278/.360 in a career-high 116 plate appearances in 1989 and went 3 for 22 with a double and homer in 1990. Overall, he had hit .231/.264/.383 with 15 homers in 394 at-bats over 396 games in NPB. He coached for Yomiuri in 1995.

Source: Japanbaseballdaily.com