#6 Tomoaki Kanemoto

Name,first name: Kanemoto Tomoaki（金本知憲）

Fans call him: Aniki (big brother)

Number: 6

Position: Outfielder (LF)

Date of birth: 3.04.1968

Place of birth: Hiroshima

Height/Weight: 180cm/89kg

Blood type: O

Throws/Bats: Right/Left

High School/University: Koryo/Tohoku Fukushi

Draft: 1991 (No. 4)

Former team: Hiroshima Carp (in Hanshin since 2003)

Awards: Best 9 (1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008), MEP-Most Exciting Player (1996, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2007), Japan Series most combative player (2003), best RBI (2004), MVP (2005), Interleague best player (2005, 2008), MVP of the month (September 1996, May 2005, June 2008, April 2009), All Stars MVP (1996, 2003).

Comment: Kanemoto is one of the veterans and symbolic player of Hanshin. He has been the tenured left fielder and clean-up since year. This season, because of a shoulder injury he left the left field to his younger teammates and his role of clean-up to his "little brother" Arai. His favorite hobby: slandering Arai.

2010 stats:

AVG	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	R	RBI	SAC	SB
.241	144	396	85	12	0	16	39	45	0	1