Hiroaki Takaya (高谷 裕亮, born November 13, 1981) is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher, and the current first squad battery coach for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He played in NPB for the Hawks from 2007 to 2021.
Source: “Hiroaki Takaya”, English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), excerpt