Hiromasa Funabasama

Hiromasa Funabasama pitches for the Yomiuri Giants, and the route he took there is the part I find worth dwelling on. Born in 1996 in Zao, a small town in Miyagi Prefecture, he went through Seiko Gakuin High School and then Higashi Nippon International University before turning professional. In Japanese baseball the celebrated path is the high school phenomenon drafted straight into the pros; the college route reads as slower, and often means a player has had to rebuild his mechanics and his confidence on his own terms before anyone was watching. That tends to produce a different kind of pitcher. Landing in the Giants' bullpen, where roster competition is relentless and the crowd's expectations arrive fully formed, is not a small thing for someone from a rural Miyagi town. His numbers are still being written, which is exactly why I would rather describe the trajectory than pretend to grade the career.

Name (English)

Hiromasa Funabasama

Name (Japanese)

船迫大雅

Reading

ふなばさま ひろまさ

Born

October 16, 1996 (age 29)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rat

Origin

Zaō-machi, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Seiko Gakuin High School

University

Higashi Nippon International University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromasa%20Funabasama
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%88%B9%E8%BF%AB%E5%A4%A7%E9%9B%85
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115529886

Tags

• Miyagi Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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