J. B. Wendelken

J.B. Wendelken is one of those guys who quietly earns your respect the longer you watch him. A relief pitcher out of Savannah, Georgia who went through Middle Georgia College — not exactly the recruiting hotbed scouts dream about — and still carved out a real MLB career with Oakland and Arizona. But the thing that makes his story genuinely interesting to me is the Japan chapter: pitching in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars takes serious guts and adaptability, and not every American arm makes it work over there. He did. That willingness to go find challenges wherever the game takes him says something about his character, and honestly it's the kind of journeyman hustle that I find way more compelling than a blue-chip prospect who had everything handed to him.

Name (English)

J. B. Wendelken

Name (Japanese)

J.B.ウェンデルケン

Reading

J.B.うぇんでるけん

Born

March 24, 1993 (age 33)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rooster

Origin

Savannah, Georgia, United States

Occupation

baseball player

University

Middle Georgia College

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jb_wendelken/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.B.%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Georgia
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.