He probably had a lot of stress built up. It was good for him and good for the team.
"As player"
* Yomiuri Giants (–)
"As manager"
* Yomiuri Giants (–, –present)
* Japan national baseball team/Japan national team (2009 World Baseball Classic/2009)
"As coach"
* Yomiuri Giants (–)
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* Nippon Professional Baseball Rookie of the Year Award/Central League Rookie of the Year
* Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award/Central League MVP
* 3× Japan Series champion (2002 Japan Series/2002, 2009 Japan Series/2009, 2012 Japan Series/2012)
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is the current manager (baseball)/manager for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball. He also played for the Yomiuri Giants during his professional baseball career from to . Hara led the Japan national baseball team to victory in the final of the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
His nephew is a professional pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano for the Giants.
More Tatsunori Hara on Wikipedia.The cleanup batter is not a spot I want to change. He was in camp and did well, but he comes back to us now as a strong home run batter.
It was very big that the three guys [who failed in the first] came back and got hits in the third.
Today we saw the real Kuwata.
I'm not worried about Uehara at all.
Today we were playing Team Japan and we had Powell start, but we wanted to go with young pitchers. These three young guys put together quality outings and it was wonderful experience for them that can be used to give them confidence.
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