Kaito Saiki

I'll be honest, I don't have a deep stat sheet on Kaito Saiki in front of me, but the shape of his story already grabs me. Here's an Osaka kid, born in Toyonaka in 2000, who packed up and went all the way to Hokkaido for high school baseball before circling back home to Osaka University of Economics and turning pro. That out-and-back arc tells me something: he chased the grind where it was coldest and toughest, then came home to prove it. I love a player like that, the kind who builds quietly instead of arriving fully formed. I'm rooting for him to keep climbing.

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Kaito Saiki is a Japanese professional baseball player born on June 10, 2000, in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. He attended Hokkaido Ei High School before going on to study at Osaka University of Economics. A pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes, he was their second-round developmental pick in the 2022 draft and made his first-team debut in May 2024.

Name (English)

Kaito Saiki

Name (Japanese)

才木海翔

Reading

さいき かいと

Born

June 10, 2000 (age 26)

Origin

Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dragon

High school

Hokkaido Ei High School

University

Osaka University of Economics

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%89%8D%E6%9C%A8%E6%B5%B7%E7%BF%94
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121354661

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• 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.