José Quijada

Jose Gregorio Quijada was born on November 9, 1995, in Caripito, a town in the state of Monagas in Venezuela. He is a pitcher, and his career map is worth pausing over: Major League Baseball with the Miami Marlins and then the Los Angeles Angels, and now Nippon Professional Baseball with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. There was a time when a move from the American majors to Japan read as an ending. It does not read that way anymore. Relief pitching in particular has become a genuinely global labour market, with arms circulating between leagues on the strength of a specific, transferable skill rather than name recognition. Bullpen careers rarely produce the numbers that make people famous, which is exactly why I find the geography telling. Caripito to Florida to California to Tokyo is an absurd distance to travel on the merits of a pitching arm, and it is now an ordinary path.

Name (English)

José Quijada

Name (Japanese)

ホセ・キハダ

Reading

ほせ・きはだ

Born

November 9, 1995 (age 30)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Boar

Origin

Caripito, Monagas, Venezuela

Occupation

baseball player

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Quijada%20(baseball)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%8F%E3%83%80
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64982989

Tags

• Monagas
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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