Hiroshi Yagi

As coach Hiroshi Yagi (八木 裕, born June 8, 1965) is a retired Japanese baseball player for the Hanshin Tigers.

He was an All-Star in 1990 and a member of the Tigers' 2003 championship team.

In the later years of his career, he was known as the team's "God of Pinch Hitting".

[1] After retiring at the end of the 2004 season, he spent some time in the media before becoming a hitting coach for Hanshin in 2009.

He was named as the hitting coach for the club's second team for the 2015 season.