Kazuki Yabuta

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.

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.

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

Height

188 cm

Occupation

Baseball player

University

Asia University

Motto

Private

• 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

Tags

• Baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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