Alex Ramírez

2,017 hits. That is why Alex Ramirez belongs in the main conversation about Japanese baseball rather than the footnotes about imports. He is the all-time hits leader among foreign players in NPB and the only one to reach 2,000, and a number like that demands the one thing the usual import story never allows: staying. The standard arc is three seasons, a fat contract, then home. Ramirez, born in Caracas in 1974, did the opposite. He learned the league, became Rami-chan to the fans, made his celebrations part of the ballpark, and later came back as a manager. Putting up numbers is hard. Putting them up for well over a decade in a country whose language, food and baseball manners are all foreign to you is another thing entirely.

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Name (English)

Alex Ramírez

Name (Japanese)

アレックス・ラミレス

Reading

あれっくす・らみれす

Born

October 3, 1974 (age 51)

Origin

Caracas, Venezuela

Height

180 cm

Occupation

baseball player / baseball manager / YouTuber

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ramichan3/
• Xhttps://x.com/Ramichan3
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Ram%C3%ADrez
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q848329

Tags

• baseball player
• baseball manager
• YouTuber

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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