José de Paula

What strikes me about Jose de Paula is how far his journey carried him. Born in Villa Mella in Santo Domingo Province in 1988, he climbed the long way up from the Dominican Republic to the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball, then kept his career alive overseas as a pitcher for the CTBC Brothers in Taiwan's CPBL. I find that second act quietly admirable. Plenty of arms wash out once the MLB door closes, but he kept competing on a different continent. To me he reads as a working pitcher who chased the game wherever it would have him.

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Name (English)

José de Paula

Name (Japanese)

ホセ・デポーラ

Reading

ほせ・でぽーら

Born

March 4, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

Villa Mella, Santo Domingo Province, Dominican Republic

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20de%20Paula
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18817829

Tags

• Santo Domingo Province
• baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.