Hisanori Yasuda

Hisanori Yasuda is a 188 cm infielder for the Chiba Lotte Marines, born in 1999 and nicknamed "Yassan". What interests me about players like him is the burden that comes with the frame. When a hitter is that big, everyone decides in advance what he is supposed to be — a slugger, a cleanup bat, a franchise cornerstone — and then measures him against a story he never wrote himself. That is a strange kind of pressure, and it tends to make the good stretches look normal and the quiet ones look like failure. But size is also why nobody gives up on a player like this. One connected swing is enough to reset the conversation, and everyone in the ballpark knows it. His nickname suggests he is genuinely liked, inside the clubhouse and out, which counts for something in a long season. I would rather watch him for the individual moments — the full, committed cut — than track him only through a stat line. The numbers are honest, but they are not the whole picture with a hitter like this.

Name (English)

Hisanori Yasuda

Name (Japanese)

安田尚憲

Reading

やすだ ひさのり

Born

April 15, 1999 (age 27)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

Height

188 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisanori%20Yasuda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E7%94%B0%E5%B0%9A%E6%86%B2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47581853

Tags

• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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