My Take
I'll be honest, the first thing that grabs me about Kazuki Yabuta is that frame: 188 centimeters of pitcher staring you down from the mound has to feel less like an at-bat and more like a standoff. He's a 1992 summer baby out of Asia University, which is one of those serious Tokyo college-baseball pipelines that grinds guys through real competition before they ever sniff the pros, and I imagine that grind left some quiet toughness baked in. I don't have his stat line memorized, and I'm not going to invent one, but I've got a soft spot for the tall, unflashy righthander who just keeps showing up and firing it in. There's something I genuinely root for in that kind of steady, no-drama presence, so consider me casually in his corner.
Overview
Kazuki Yabuta is a Japanese professional baseball player born on August 7, 1992. Standing 188 cm tall, he is known as a pitcher who developed his craft through the competitive university baseball program at Asia University. Details about his career active period and current agency are not publicly disclosed.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Kazuki Yabuta
- Name (Japanese)
- 薮田和樹
- Reading
- やぶた かずき
- Born
- August 7, 1992 (age 33)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Year of the Monkey
- Origin
- Japan
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 188 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Active years
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Baseball player
2. Background
- University
- Asia University
- Debut
- Unknown
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kazuki_yabuta/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%96%AE%E7%94%B0%E5%92%8C%E6%A8%B9
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.