Hotaka Yamakawa
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Yamakawa with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks – No. 5 | |||||||||||||||
| First baseman | |||||||||||||||
| Born: November 23, 1991 Naha, Okinawa, Japan | |||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||
| NPB debut | |||||||||||||||
| June 21, 2014, for the Saitama Seibu Lions | |||||||||||||||
| NPB statistics (through 2025 season) | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .251 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 275 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 736 | ||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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Hotaka Yamakawa (山川 穂高, Yamakawa Hotaka; born November 23, 1991) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Saitama Seibu Lions. Yamakawa led the Pacific League in home runs in 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2024.