Hisanori Takahashi

Hisanori Takahashi's career reads like a quiet argument against playing it safe. Born in Sumida, Tokyo in 1975, he came through Komazawa University and established himself as a left-handed pitcher with the Yomiuri Giants, one of the most scrutinized jobs in Japanese sport. Then, rather than settling into a comfortable late career at home, he crossed over to Major League Baseball and pitched for the New York Mets, the Los Angeles Angels, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. People sometimes read a list like that as instability. I read it the other way around. Major league roster spots are brutally contested, and a pitcher who keeps getting picked up by new organizations is a pitcher who keeps proving he can still get outs. He was useful, repeatedly, in a league that owes nobody anything. He now works as a baseball commentator, and that background matters: he has stood on mounds on both sides of the Pacific and can tell you where the differences actually live.

Name (English)

Hisanori Takahashi

Name (Japanese)

高橋尚成

Reading

たかはし ひさのり

Born

April 2, 1975 (age 51)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

Origin

Sumida, Tokyo, Japan

Height

177 cm

Occupation

baseball player / baseball commentator

University

Komazawa University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisanori%20Takahashi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%99%E6%A9%8B%E5%B0%9A%E6%88%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1071925

Tags

• Tokyo
• baseball player
• baseball commentator

Last updated

2026-08-07

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