Hirotoshi Takanashi

What jumps out from the sparse record here is the number 187 — tall for a Japanese pitcher, and tall enough that it must have shaped everything about how he was coached. Height on the mound is a double-edged gift: it buys you downward angle, but long levers are notoriously hard to keep in sync, and plenty of big pitchers never fully repeat their delivery. Takanashi came up through Toke High School in Chiba and Yamanashi Gakuin University before turning professional, which is a slower, less glamorous route than the high-school-phenom pipeline Japanese baseball loves to celebrate. The database entry for him is close to empty — no listed awards, no timeline, no career highlights. I don't read that as a verdict on the man. It usually means a player whose value shows up in innings absorbed and games kept close rather than in headlines. Those careers are the connective tissue of a pitching staff, and they almost never get written about properly.

Name (English)

Hirotoshi Takanashi

Name (Japanese)

高梨裕稔

Reading

たかなし ひろとし

Born

June 5, 1991 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

Origin

Mobara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Height

187 cm

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Toke High School

University

Yamanashi Gakuin University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirotoshi%20Takanashi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E6%A2%A8%E8%A3%95%E7%A8%94
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17350093

Tags

• Chiba Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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