Erik Cordier

Erik Cordier is one of those players who makes you appreciate just how hard it is to stick in the big leagues — a hard-throwing right-hander out of Green Bay, Wisconsin who got cups of coffee with the Giants and the Marlins and showed enough raw stuff to keep getting chances. What I find genuinely interesting about his career is the Japan chapter: pitching for the Orix Buffaloes in NPB takes a real kind of guts, adapting your game to a different strike zone, different culture, different everything. He never became a household name stateside, but the fact that he carved out a professional career across two countries tells you the arm was the real deal. Sometimes the story isn't about the highlight reel — it's about a guy who kept competing wherever the game would have him.

Name (English)

Erik Cordier

Name (Japanese)

エリック・コーディエ

Reading

えりっく・こーでぃえ

Born

February 25, 1986 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Tiger

Origin

Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States

Height

191 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/ErikCordier
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A8

Tags

• Wisconsin
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.