Kan Otake

Kan Otake is exactly the kind of pitcher who never ends up on a cereal box but quietly holds a rotation together for years — the 184 cm Saitama kid who grew into a career starter for the Hiroshima Carp and later the Yomiuri Giants and just kept showing up, season after season, with that big arm and that no-drama mound presence. Pitchers like him don't trend on social media after a good outing; they trend when they finally retire and everyone suddenly realizes how many wins quietly had his fingerprints on them. I respect that kind of career more than I probably should.

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Kan Otake (born May 21, 1983) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher and coach from Yashio, Saitama Prefecture. Standing 184 cm tall, he was the Hiroshima Toyo Carp's first-round pick in 2001 and pitched 19 NPB seasons for the Carp and the Yomiuri Giants. He was born in the Year of the Boar and is a Gemini. He later moved into coaching.

Name (English)

Kan Otake

Name (Japanese)

大竹寛

Reading

おおたけ かん

Born

May 21, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

Yashio, Saitama, Japan

Height

184 cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E7%AB%B9%E5%AF%9B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q867012

Tags

• From Saitama Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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