Hideaki Matsuyama

is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder, and current the second squad manager for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

He went on to Aoyama Gakuin University, where he won the 1988 Tohto University Baseball League Fall League championship, the first in 106 years since the team's inception.

Professional career Active player era On November 26, 1989, Matsuyama was drafted fifth overall by the Orix Braves in the 1989 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. He was a member of the Orix Blue Wave for eight seasons, with a total of 126 games played, a .253 batting average, two home runs, and seven RBI, but was regarded as a defensive specialist. He coached Korea Baseball Organization's the Kia Tigers during the 2012 season.

Matsuyama became the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks' second squad infield defensive base coach for the 2018 season, the third squad infield defensive base coach for the 2021 season, and again the second squad infield defensive base coach for the 2022 season. Beginning with the 2023 season he served as the first squad infield defensive base coach. On December 2, 2023, he was transferred to the second squad manager. Matsuyama has been described as an enthusiastic coach, he continues to wear the Fukuoka uniform as a coach since his retirement.