Daisuke Yamashita

{{short description|Japanese baseball player, manager, and coach}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Daisuke Yamashita

|image=Daisuke Yamashita on March 22, 2012.jpg

|image_size=200

|caption=

|position=Infielder / Coach

|team=

|number=

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1952|3|5}}

|birth_place=Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

|debutleague=NPB

|debutdate=April 7

|debutyear=1974

|debutteam=Taiyō Whales

|finalleague=NPB

|finaldate=October 22

|finalyear=1987

|finalteam=Yokohama Taiyō Whales

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.262

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=129

|stat3label=Hits

|stat3value=1378

|teams=

As player

• Taiyō Whales/Yokohama Taiyō Whales (1974–1988)

As manager

• Yokohama BayStars (2003–2004)

As coach

• Yokohama BayStars/Yokohama DeNA BayStars (1993–2000, 2012–2013, 2015)
• Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (2005)

| awards=

• 1× Best Nine Award (1981)
• 8× Diamond Glove Award (1976–1983)
• 4× NPB All-Star (1974–1975, 1978, 1981)

}}

{{nihongo|Daisuke Yamashita|山下 大輔|Yamashita Daisuke|extra=born March 5, 1952}} was a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball player.