Yasuyuki Kataoka

Japanese baseball player

Baseball player

Yasuyuki Kataoka

Kataoka with the Yomiuri Giants

Infielder/Coach

Born: (1983-02-17) February 17, 1983 (age 41)
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

Teams

As player

Seibu Lions
Saitama Seibu Lions (2005–2013)
Yomiuri Giants (2014–2017)

As coach

Yomiuri Giants (2018–2021)

Career highlights and awards

4× Pacific League stolen base champion (2007 – 2010)
2008 Pacific League Best Nine Award
Japan Series champion (2008)
2× NPB All-Star selection (2008, 2010)

Medals

Representing Japan

Men's Baseball
World Baseball Classic
	2009 Los Angeles	Team

Yasuyuki Kataoka (片岡保幸, 片岡治大, 片岡易之, Kataoka Yasuyuki, born February 17, 1983 in Hanamigawa-ku, Chiba, Japan) is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player with the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League.

His wife is Japanese talent artist Becky.^[1] On 17 March 2020 The couple announced the birth of their first child,^[2] their second child was born on 20 August 2021.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Kishimoto, Yu (13 February 2019). "TV personality Becky tweets she has married Yomiuri Giants coach Kataoka". Mainichi Daily News. Tokyo. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
^ "ベッキー、第1子出産を報告". mdpr.jp. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
^ "ベッキー、今年春に第2子を出産していた". mdpr.jp. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
^ "ベッキー第２子妊娠、安定期に入り４月から産休へ". サンスポ (in Japanese). 2021-03-14. Retrieved 2023-08-06.