Tatsuya Ide

Tatsuya Ide (井出 竜也)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 11", Weight 187 lb.

• High School Yoshida High School

• Born April 19, 1971 in Minamitsuru-gun, Yamanashi Japan

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Biographical Information

Tatsuya Ide played in Nippon Pro Baseball and for the Japan national baseball team.

Ide represented Japan in the 1993 Intercontinental Cup, hitting .333/.414/.583 with 8 runs and 7 RBI in 8 games, going 5-for-6 in steals and fielding .875 in center, with two assists and two errors. He tied Toshihisa Nishi for the most swipes in the Cup. Oddly, he sat out the Bronze Medal Game win in favor of Yasunari Kanaya. The Nippon Ham Fighters drafted him in the second round of the 1993 NPB draft. Ide spent the first year of his career in the NPB Farm Leagues, and the Fighters promoted him to the big club in 1995. Ide debuted on April 1, 1995, and collected his first career hit off Dennis Powell the next day. He ended up hitting .228/.283/.335 in the 1995 season. Ide improved and hit .254/.312/.360 in the 1996 season.

1997 was Ide's career year. He was selected into the 1997 NPB All-Star Game, but went 0-for-3 in two games. He played all 135 games with a .284/.357/.401 batting line and a career-high 27 steals, and won his first NPB Gold Glove award as an outfielder. However, Ide slumped and hit .216/.263/.328 in 1998. Ide only played 60 games in the 1999 season, but he still made into the roster of Japan for the 1999 Asian Championship, when Japan finished second to earn a spot in the 2000 Olympics. He came back and recorded a .267/.352/.442 line with a career-high 13 homers in 2000.

Ide extended his good condition in 2001, batting .288/.358/.422 with 11 homers. The Yamanashi native attended the All-Star Game again, but went 0-for-3 in 2 games. He recorded a .226/.290/.394 batting line with 13 homers in 2002, and also won his second Gold Glove award. Ide only played 82 games in 2003, and the Fighters traded him to the Yomiuri Giants for Yusaku Iriki. Ide didn't play well with the Giants, recorded a 1-for-23 in 41 games. The Giants released Ide after the 2004 season, and the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks picked him up. Ide announced his retirement after hitting .182/.274/.309 in 2005. He then became the defense coach for the Hawks from 2007 to 2012, and also worked as the same position for their minor team in 2006 and from 2013 to present (2023).

Overall, Ide had hit .253/.320/.385 in 11 seasons in NPB. He is not to be confused with contemporary outfielder Tetsuya Iida.