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Japanese baseball player and coach Baseball player

Hiroshi Narahara
Narahara with the Saitama Seibu Lions.
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – No. 92
Infielder / Coach
Born: (1968-05-16) May 16, 1968 (age 56) Minami-Saitama District, Saitama
Batted: RightThrew: Right
NPB debut
April 6, 1991, for the Seibu Lions
Last NPB appearance
October 22, 2006, for the Chunichi Dragons
NPB statistics
Batting average	.237
Home runs	13
Hits	674

Teams
As player Seibu Lions (1991–1997) Nippon-Ham Fighters/Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (1998–2006) Chunichi Dragons (2006) As coach Chunichi Dragons (2007–2011) Saitama Seibu Lions (2012–2016) Chunichi Dragons (2017–2019 ) Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (2020-2023) Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (2024-present)

Hiroshi Narahara (奈良原浩, Narahara Hiroshi, born May 16, 1968) is a former Japanese professional baseball player and currently first squad head coach for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played for the Seibu Lions, Nippon-Ham Fighters/Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and Chunichi Dragons of the NPB.

After his retirement, Narahara was the infield defense and base running coach for the Chunichi Dragons during the 2007-2011 season.

He served as the Saitama Seibu Lions first squad and second squad the infield defense and base running coach from the 2012-2016 seasons.

He again served as the infield defense and base running coach for the Chunichi Dragons from 2017-2019 season.

On October 14, 2019, Narahara become second squad manager for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and served through the 2023 season.

On October 31, 2023, Narahara became the first squad head coach of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

References

^ "Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks press release 2023年10月31日新入団コーチのお知らせ". Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Official site (in Japanese). October 31, 2023. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
"新任コーチに関して". 東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス公式サイト (in Japanese). October 14, 2019. Retrieved December 22, 2019.

v t e Japan roster – 2015 WBSC Premier12
2 Kenta Imamiya 3 Nobuhiro Matsuda 5 Shingo Kawabata 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Akira Nakamura 8 Ryosuke Hirata 9 Takuya Nakashima 10 Yuki Matsui 11 Tomoyuki Sugano 13 Sho Nakata 14 Takahiro Norimoto 15 Hirokazu Sawamura 16 Shohei Ohtani 18 Kenta Maeda 19 Hirotoshi Masui 21 Yuki Nishi 22 Yūdai Ōno 23 Tetsuto Yamada 24 Yasuaki Yamasaki 25 Yoshi Tsutsugo 27 Ginjiro Sumitani 29 Yasuhiro Ogawa 30 Shota Takeda 35 Kazuhisa Makita 37 Motohiro Shima 52 Yuhei Nakamura 55 Shogo Akiyama 60 Takeya Nakamura
Manager 90 Hiroki Kokubo Coach 73 Hiroshi Narahara Coach 79 Takayuki Ohnishi Coach 80 Atsunori Inaba Coach 87 Toshihisa Nishi Coach 88 Akihiro Yano Coach 89 Yoshitaka Katori

v t e Japan roster – 2017 World Baseball Classic
1 Seiichi Uchikawa 2 Kosuke Tanaka 3 Nobuhiro Matsuda 4 Ryosuke Kikuchi 6 Hayato Sakamoto 7 Nori Aoki 8 Ryosuke Hirata 9 Ginjiro Sumitani 10 Yuki Matsui 11 Tomoyuki Sugano 12 Ryo Akiyoshi 13 Sho Nakata 14 Takahiro Norimoto 15 Naoki Miyanishi 17 Shintaro Fujinami 19 Hirotoshi Masui 20 Ayumu Ishikawa 22 Seiji Kobayashi 23 Tetsuto Yamada 25 Yoshi Tsutsugo 27 Shōta Ōno 30 Shota Takeda 34 Toshiya Okada 35 Kazuhisa Makita 37 Motohiro Shima 41 Kodai Senga 51 Seiya Suzuki 55 Shogo Akiyama 66 Yoshihisa Hirano
Manager 90 Hiroki Kokubo Coach 72 Hiroshi Gondoh Coach 73 Hiroshi Narahara Coach 79 Takayuki Ohnishi Coach 87 Toshihisa Nishi Coach 80 Atsunori Inaba Coach 84 Yoshinori Murata

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Managers / Coaches
First squad	Manager: 90 Hiroki Kokubo Head coach: 92 Hiroshi Narahara Pitching coaches: 94 Shinji Kurano, 72 Kenichi Wakatabe, 71 Kenichi Nakata Hitting coaches: 93 Arihito Muramatsu, 78 Takayuki Murakami Defense & base running coaches: 80 Yuichi Honda, 87 Tatsuya Ide Battery coach: 84 Hiroaki Takaya
Second squad	Manager: 74 Hideaki Matsuyama Pitching coaches: 73 Takashi Ogasawara, 76 Hayato Terahara Hitting coach: 77 Ryo Yoshimoto, 88 Kenji Akashi Defense & base running coaches: 82 Tomoki Takata, 96 Ryuma Kidokoro Battery coach: 83 Masaumi Shimizu
Third squad	Manager: 85 Hiroshi Ogawa Pitching coaches: 86 Masahiro Sakumoto, 97 Kazuhisa Makita Hitting coach: 75 Noriyoshi Omichi Defense & base running coaches: 91 Keisuke Kaneko, 98 Fumikazu Takanami Battery coach: 95 Kenji Yoshitsuru
Fourth squad	Manager: 011 Kazumi Saito Pitching coaches: 012 Hidetaka Kawagoe, 021 Masato Okumura Hitting coach: 013 Shigeru Morikasa Defense & base running coaches: 014 Takashi Sasagawa, 015 Go Kamamoto Battery coach: 016 Tetsuya Matoyama Rehabilitation coach: 017 Ryoji Moriyama, 018 Masahiro Nakatani Field player coordinator: 019 Koichi Sekikawa Pitcher coordinator: 020 Junji Hoshino Battery coordinator: 022 Hiroyuki Mori Base running coordinator: 023 Hisao Arakane
Training	Training: 008 Kim Won-hyong

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