Darin Ruf

Darin Ruf's path is the kind of baseball story I genuinely enjoy. An Omaha kid out of Westside High and Creighton, he carved out a real Major League career as a first baseman, left fielder and DH across the Phillies, Giants, Mets and Brewers. What I find most interesting is the KBO detour with the Samsung Lions; going to Korea, mashing, and earning your way back to MLB is a grind most fans underestimate. That kind of journeyman resilience appeals to me more than a flashier prospect's hype. He reads like a player who maximized every bit of his power and platoon value.

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Name (English)

Darin Ruf

Name (Japanese)

ダリン・ラフ

Reading

だりん・らふ

Born

July 28, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

High school

Westside High School

University

Creighton University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darin%20Ruf
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3016124

Tags

• Nebraska
• baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.