Motonobu Tanishige

Montag, 21. Dezember 1970

Motonobu Tanishige (谷繁 元信, born December 21, 1970 in Hiroshima) is a retired Japanese professional baseball player and manager. Tanishige played 27 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball, appearing in more games than any other player in NPB history. Making his debut for the Taiyo Whales in 1989 at age 18, he played for the Whales/BayStars franchise for 13 years. Moving to the Dragons in 2002, through 2015 he played for that franchise for 14 seasons. He played in five Japan Series, and one World Baseball Classic, in 2006, when Japan won the championship. He was the manager player-manager of the Chunichi Dragons from 2014 to 2015, staying on as manager in 2016.