Yasuyuki Kataoka
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Kataoka with the Yomiuri Giants | |||||||||||||||
| Infielder/Coach | |||||||||||||||
| Born: February 17, 1983 Chiba, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
| March 26, 2005, for the Seibu Lions | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through 2016 season) | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .266 | ||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1174 | ||||||||||||||
| RBIs | 389 | ||||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 320 | ||||||||||||||
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| As player
As coach | |||||||||||||||
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Yasuyuki Kataoka (片岡 保幸, Kataoka Yasuyuki, born February 17, 1983 in Hanamigawa-ku, Chiba, Japan) is a Japanese former Nippon Professional Baseball player. He played for the Seibu Lions in Japan’s Pacific League and the Yomiuri Giants in the Central League.
His wife is Japanese talent artist Becky. On 17 March 2020 the couple announced the birth of their first child, and their second child was born on 20 August 2021.