Hiromoto Okubo

Hiromoto Okubo, better known in Japan by the nickname Dave, had two careers most people would consider mutually exclusive. First he was a catcher in Nippon Professional Baseball, with the Seibu Lions and later the Yomiuri Giants. Then, after retiring, he became a broadcast personality, a talker, a man with a comfortable second act and no obligation to risk anything again. And then he went back. He managed Rakuten's farm team, was promoted to manage the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in 2015, watched the club finish last, and resigned after a single season. On paper that is a failure. I read it differently. Someone already being paid to have opinions about baseball chose to go stand in the place where opinions get tested and usually hurt. That is not a small thing. Plenty of former players talk about the game. Far fewer are willing to be judged by it a second time.

Name (English)

Hiromoto Okubo

Name (Japanese)

大久保博元

Born

February 1, 1967 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Goat

Origin

Ōarai-machi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Height

180 cm

Occupation

baseball player / tarento

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://yasuzo-29.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hiromoto88/
• Xhttps://x.com/DAVEOHKUBO
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E4%B9%85%E4%BF%9D%E5%8D%9A%E5%85%83

Tags

• Ibaraki Prefecture
• baseball player
• tarento

Last updated

2026-07-27

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.