Chihiro Kaneko

Kaneko with the Orix Buffaloes

Orix Buffaloes – No. 19

Pitcher

Born: November 8, 1983
Niigata, Japan

Bats: Left

Throws: Right

debut

April 12, 2006, for the Orix Buffaloes

Teams

Orix Buffaloes (2005 – )

Career highlights and awards

2014 Eiji Sawamura Award
2x NPB Win Champion (2010, 2014)
2014 NPB ERA Champion
2013 NPB Strikeout Champion
2x NPB All-Star (2009, 2014)

Chihiro Kaneko (金子千尋, Kaneko Chihiro, born November 8, 1983 in Niigata, Japan) is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher with the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's Pacific League.

External links

Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)

Orix Buffaloes current roster

Active roster	3 Ryoichi Adachi 4 Brent Morel 7 Yoshio Itoi 8 Shunta Gotoh 10 Kohji Ohshiro 11 Takahiro Matsuba 14 Kazumasa Yoshida 15 Tatsuya Satoh 16 Yoshihisa Hirano 17 Sachiya Yamasaki 21 Yuki Nishi 23 Torai Fushimi 26 Daiki Tohmei 32 Brandon Dickson 35 Motoki Higa 37 Kenya Wakatsuki 38 Shūhei Kojima 39 Masahiro Nishino 40 Kohei Suzuki 44 Matt Clark 47 Tomoyuki Kaida 50 Yūya Oda 55 Takahiro Okada 57 Nobuyoshi Yamada 60 Ken Akama 61 Kyo Okunami 62 Katsuki Yamazaki 63 Issei Nakamura

Second squad	00 Satoshi Sonobe 1 Hiroyuki Nakajima 2 Takuya Hara 6 Yūma Mune 12 Kohdai Sano 13 Shunichi Satoh 18 Mamoru Kishida 19 Chihiro Kaneko 20 Daisuke Kondoh 22 Hikaru Ito 24 Yūki Miyazaki 25 Pat Misch 27 Daiki Aoyama 28 Satoshi Komatsu 29 Brian Bogusevic 30 Kyohei Iwasaki 31 Eiichi Koyano 33 Takuya Shimada 34 Masataka Yoshida 36 Ban Takagi 42 Tony Blanco 43 Seiichi Sakayori 45 Toshio Saitoh 46 Takayoshi Kawabata 48 Kohki Saitoh 49 Hirokazu Shiranita 52 Erik Cordier 53 Yūto Yoshida 54 Yūki Tsutsumi 56 Kengo Takeda 58 Ryuta Kadoya 59 Shohei Tsukahara 64 Shota Morimoto 65 Ryosuke Yagi 66 Ryo Yoshida 67 Sena Sato 68 Yu Suzuki 69 Satoshi Ohyama 91 Takayuki Tsukada 97 Daisuke Tanaka 98 Atori Ota 99 Yutaro Sugimoto 121 Kosuke Akamatsu (Trainee) 125 Ryo Toda (Trainee)

First squad coaching	Manager: 78 Junichi Fukura Head Coach: 77 Norifumi Nishimura Conditioning Coach: 79 Takahiro Akagawa Pitching Coaches: 71 Nobuyuki Hoshino, 89 Hiroshi Kobayashi Bullpen Coach: 90 Shusaku Beppu Battery Coach: 82 Fumihiro Suzuki Hitting Coaches: 88 Yoshihiko Takahashi, 85 Hirotoshi Kitagawa Fielding Coaches: 76 Naoyuki Kazaoka, 75 Manabu Satake

Second squad coaching	Manager 81 So Taguchi Hitting Coaches: 74 Shinji Shitayama, 79 Ryutaro Tsuji Pitching Coaches: 72 Masafumi Hirai, 73 Atsushi Yoshida Fielding Coaches: 86 Makoto Shiosaki. 84 Daisuke Hayakawa Battery Coach: 87 Daisuke Maeda Development Coaches: 80 Tsutomu Sakai, 70 Takashi Miwa

Eiji Sawamura Award

1947: Bessho
1948: Nakao
1949: Fujimoto
1950: Sanada
1951: Sugishita
1952: Sugishita
1953: Otomo
1954: Sugishita
1955: Bessho
1956: Kaneda
1957: Kaneda
1958: Kaneda
1959: Murayama
1960: Horimoto
1961: Gondoh
1962: Koyama
1963: Ito
1964: Bacque
1965: Murayama
1966: Murayama & Horiuchi
1967: Ogawa
1968: Enatsu
1969: Takahashi
1970: Hiramatsu
1971: Not Awarded
1972: Horiuchi
1973: Takahashi
1974: Hoshino
1975: Sotokoba
1976: Ikegaya
1977: Kobayashi
1978: Matsuoka
1979: Kobayashi
1980: Not Awarded
1981: Nishimoto
1982: Kitabeppu
1983: Endo
1984: Not Awarded
1985: Komatsu
1986: Kitabeppu
1987: Kuwata
1988: Ohno
1989: M. Saito
1990: Nomo
1991: Sasaoka
1992: Ishii
1993: Imanaka
1994: Yamamoto
1995: M. Saito
1996: M. Saito
1997: Nishiguchi
1998: Kawasaki
1999: Uehara
2000: Not Awarded
2001: Matsuzaka
2002: Uehara
2003: Igawa & K. Saito
2004: Kawakami
2005: Sugiuchi
2006: K. Saito
2007: Darvish
2008: Iwakuma
2009: Wakui
2010: Maeda
2011: Tanaka
2012: Settsu
2013: Tanaka
2014: Kaneko
2015: Maeda
2016: Johnson

Pacific League MVP Award

1950: Betto
1951: Yamamoto
1952: Yuki
1953: Okamoto
1954: Oshita
1955: Iida
1956: Nakanishi
1957: Inao
1958: Inao
1959: Sugiura
1960: Yamauchi
1961: Nomura
1962: Harimoto
1963: Nomura
1964: Stanka
1965: Nomura
1966: Nomura
1967: Adachi
1968: Yoneda
1969: Nagaike
1970: Kitaru
1971: Nagaike
1972: Fukumoto
1973: Nomura
1974: Kaneda
1975: Katō
1976: Yamada
1977: Yamada
1978: Yamada
1979: Manuel
1980: Kida
1981: Enatsu
1982: Ochiai
1983: Higashio
1984: G. Wells
1985: Ochiai
1986: Ishige
1987: Higashio
1988: Kadota
1989: Bryant
1990: Nomo
1991: T. Kaku
1992: Ishii
1993: Kudoh
1994: Suzuki
1995: Suzuki
1996: Suzuki
1997: Nishiguchi
1998: K. Matsui
1999: Kudoh
2000: Matsunaka
2001: Rhodes
2002: Cabrera
2003: Johjima
2004: Matsunaka
2005: Sugiuchi
2006: Ogasawara
2007: Darvish
2008: Iwakuma
2009: Darvish
2010: Wada
2011: Uchikawa
2012: Yoshikawa
2013: Tanaka
2014: Kaneko
2015: Yanagita
2016: Otani

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