Daisuke Sobue

I will be honest: the record I have on Daisuke Sobue is thin. Born in Nagoya in 1987, schooled in Aichi through high school and university, a pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons. That is close to all of it. But the outline still tells a story. He never left home; he grew up in Aichi and ended up on the mound for Aichi's team, which rarely lines up so neatly. He also pitched in relief, one of the least fair jobs in sport. Hold the lead and nobody remembers you; give it up and you are tomorrow's headline. A sparse page does not mean a small career. Often it just means the work never generated stories.

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Name (English)

Daisuke Sobue

Name (Japanese)

祖父江大輔

Reading

そぶえ だいすけ

Born

August 11, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

175 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rabbit

High school

Nagoya City Tomida Junior High School

University

Aichi University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sobue/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke%20Sobue
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%96%E7%88%B6%E6%B1%9F%E5%A4%A7%E8%BC%94
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17160438

Tags

• Aichi Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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