Daiki Masuda

Daiki Masuda, born July 29, 1993, is an infielder for the Yomiuri Giants, and at 172 cm he is not built the way the highlight reel prefers. That is what interests me about him. In baseball there is a whole category of player who survives on legs, glove and situational judgment rather than power, and it is a brutal way to make a living. The work is invisible when it succeeds and painfully visible when it fails: nobody remembers who stole the base that set up the winning run, but everybody remembers the runner thrown out. Roster spots for that role are thin and always contested. So the simple fact of turning up in the same uniform, season after season, is the evaluation. His public record here is sparse, which fits. Players like this are read in the box score margins, not in the headlines.

Name (English)

Daiki Masuda

Name (Japanese)

増田大輝

Reading

ますだ だいき

Born

July 29, 1993 (age 33)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

Height

172 cm

Occupation

baseball player

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiki%20Masuda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A2%97%E7%94%B0%E5%A4%A7%E8%BC%9D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24870466

Tags

• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.