Haruka Yamada

Haruka Yamada is the kind of professional athlete whose career tells you more than his statistics do. Born in September 1996 and listed at 179 cm, he is an infielder in Nippon Professional Baseball, currently with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles after previous stints with the Saitama Seibu Lions and the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Three organizations. That detail is easy to skim past, but it describes a specific kind of professional life. Moving between clubs means proving yourself to a new coaching staff, learning a new infield, and accepting that your place is never settled. Players who lock down a starting job never face that. Players who keep getting signed anyway are usually valued for something concrete, and for an infielder that something is typically defensive versatility and the willingness to be useful wherever the roster has a hole. I find those careers quietly admirable. Baseball narratives gravitate toward the stars, but a team season is held together by players who show up in a new uniform and get on with it. Yamada has done that more than once.

Name (English)

Haruka Yamada

Name (Japanese)

山田遥楓

Reading

やまだ はるか

Born

September 30, 1996 (age 29)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rat

Height

179 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruka%20Yamada
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E7%94%B0%E9%81%A5%E6%A5%93
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18818290

Tags

• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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