Nori Aoki
| Norichika Aoki 青木 宣親 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Aoki with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Outfielder | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born: January 5, 1982 Hyūga, Miyazaki, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||
Batted: Left Threw: Right | ||||||||||||||||||
| Professional debut | ||||||||||||||||||
| NPB: July 17, 2004, for the Yakult Swallows | ||||||||||||||||||
| MLB: April 6, 2012, for the Milwaukee Brewers | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | ||||||||||||||||||
| NPB: October 5, 2024, for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows | ||||||||||||||||||
| MLB: October 1, 2017, for the New York Mets | ||||||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .313 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1,956 | |||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 145 | |||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 667 | |||||||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 177 | |||||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | ||||||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .285 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hits | 774 | |||||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 33 | |||||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 219 | |||||||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 98 | |||||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | ||||||||||||||||||
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Norichika "Nori" Aoki (青木 宣親, Aoki Norichika; born January 5, 1982) is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Houston Astros, Toronto Blue Jays, and New York Mets, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Aoki is one of only six players, alongside Ichiro Suzuki, Matt Murton, Alex Ramirez, Tsuyoshi Nishioka, and Shogo Akiyama, to amass 200 or more hits in a single season in Japanese professional baseball, and the only individual to do so in two separate seasons. He played in the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classics as well as the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and represented Japan in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.