Terunobu Seto

Terunobu Seto (瀬戸 輝信)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 9", Weight 182 lb.

• School Hosei University
• High School Fukuoka University Ohori High School

• Born March 25, 1969 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Japan

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Biographical Information

Terunobu Seto has played in Nippon Pro Baseball and for the Japanese national team.

Seto represented Japan in the 1990 Goodwill Games. The Hiroshima Carp drafted him in the first round of the 1990 NPB draft. He lost the competition with Shuji Nishiyama in his rookie year, so he spent the first four years of his career in the NPB Farm Leagues, only played 72 games combined with the big club. He even said that he wanted to retire after the 1994 season. When Nishiyama injured in 1995, Seto finally had some chances, and he hit .256/.327/.325 in that year. However, Seto became a backup catcher again when Nishiyama came back, and he only played 21 games in 1996.

Seto hit .204/.288/.296 in 79 games in 1997, and finally became the starting catcher because Nishiyama missed the entire 1998 season due to an injury. He played a career-high 120 games with a .233/.277/.292 batting line. Nishiyama took his spot again in 1999 after recovering, so he only got into 56 and 48 games respectively in the next two seasons. When young catcher prospects Kazuyoshi Kimura and Yoshiyuki Ishihara shined with the big club, veteran Seto lost his spot and only played 12 games combined from 2002 to 2004. He announced his retirement after the 2004 season, and became a coach. He was the battery coach for the Carp in 2005.

Overall, Seto had hit .244/.303/.311 in 14 seasons in NPB.

Sources

• NPB site
• Wiki Japan