Eishin Soyogi

Eishin Soyogi is one of those names even Japanese fans stumble over — the kanji for his surname is rare enough that it looks like a typo. Born in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, in October 1980, he came up through Komazawa University and ended up an infielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, the team of the prefecture he was born in. That coincidence matters more than it sounds. Playing shortstop for your hometown club means every error is witnessed by people who knew you before you were anyone. At 173 cm he was never going to overpower a game, and infield defense rewards a different quality anyway: the half-second decision on the first step, the willingness to stand exactly where the ball is most likely to hurt you. Our records here list no awards, which I take as a gap in the data rather than a verdict on the man. What sticks with me is the shape of the career — local kid, local university pipeline, local team — a kind of loyalty that professional sport increasingly does not produce.

Name (English)

Eishin Soyogi

Name (Japanese)

梵英心

Reading

そよぎ えいしん

Born

October 11, 1980 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

Origin

Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Height

173 cm

Occupation

professional baseball player / baseball player

University

Komazawa University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eishin%20Soyogi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A2%B5%E8%8B%B1%E5%BF%83
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5365406

Tags

• Hiroshima Prefecture
• professional baseball player
• 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.