Frederich Cepeda

Frederich Cepeda is exactly the kind of player who makes Cuban baseball so fascinating to follow — a career outfielder who spent his life representing Sancti Spíritus in the Cuban National Series, a league where the competition is fierce and the national pride is almost suffocating. For a guy standing 5'10" who never made the big defection to the majors, he carved out a genuinely respected career, and his stint with the Yomiuri Giants in Japan shows the kind of international credibility you only earn by being legitimately good. I find myself rooting for players like Cepeda who stay loyal to their baseball ecosystem without chasing the obvious money path — there's something quietly dignified about it that deserves more recognition than it usually gets.

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Name (English)

Frederich Cepeda

Name (Japanese)

フレデリク・セペダ

Reading

ふれでりく・せぺだ

Born

April 8, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Sancti Spíritus, Sancti Spíritus Province, Cuba

Height

178 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederich%20Cepeda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%87%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%80
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3310588

Tags

• Sancti Spíritus Province
• baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 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.