Masami Ishigaki

is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Early career

Ishigaki started playing baseball in his third year with Kamejiro Elementary School. In his senior year in middle school, Ishigaki was selected for the Tohoku regional representative team.

Professional career

Chunichi Dragons

2017 Ishigaki started his career in the Western League farm team playing mostly at third-base where he hit .197 with 3 homeruns in 60 games.

On 4 October, Ishigaki made his professional debut, starting at third base, batting 7th where he struck out 3 times in 3 at bats.

2018 On 12 July, Ishigaki was selected as a Dragon's representative in the 2018 Fresh All-Stars game where he hit a backscreen homerun as well as capturing MVP honours.

On 19 October, it was announced that Ishigaki would be playing the 2018 Asia Winter Baseball League for the Western League selection however he was injured in the lead up and replaced by Wataru Takamatsu.

He finished the 2018 Western League season slashing .183/.256/.234 with one homerun having played 100 games.

2019

Ishigaki started the 2019 season on the farm where he captured monthly MVP honours for the month of June after hitting .345 with 3 homeruns and 7 RBIs.

On 21 August, Ishigaki was promoted to the first team and on the same day struck his first professional hit as a pinch-hitter against Yomiuri Giants ace, Tomoyuki Sugano. At the season's end, Ishigaki received a pay rise of ¥1,200,000 after playing in 15 top team games.

Playing Style Ishigaki hits for power with quick bat speed,