Tadahito Iguchi
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Iguchi with the Chiba Lotte Marines | |||||||||||||||
| Second baseman / First baseman / Manager | |||||||||||||||
| Born: December 4, 1974 Nishitōkyō, Tokyo Japan | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| Professional debut | |||||||||||||||
| NPB: May 3, 1997, for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks | |||||||||||||||
| MLB: April 4, 2005, for the Chicago White Sox | |||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | |||||||||||||||
| MLB: September 28, 2008, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |||||||||||||||
| NPB: September 24, 2017, for the Chiba Lotte Marines | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .270 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 251 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 1,017 | ||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .268 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 44 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 205 | ||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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As manager | |||||||||||||||
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Tadahito Iguchi (井口 資仁, Iguchi Tadahito, born December 4, 1974), nicknamed "Gucci", is a Japanese served professional baseball second baseman and former manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
As a member of the Chicago White Sox in 2005, Iguchi became the first Japanese-born position player to win the World Series.