Kazuyoshi Tatsunami

Kazuyoshi Tatsunami is the rare player who spent an entire career in one uniform. Born in Suita, Osaka in 1969, he was taken in the first round of the 1987 draft and stepped straight into the Chunichi Dragons infield, staying until 2009. What I admire is the shape of that career: not a home run hitter chasing highlights, but a doubles machine who piled up hits by placing them where nobody stood. Twenty-two years of that is a kind of discipline. He later returned to manage the club and it went badly, which taught me something uncomfortable. Reading a pitcher perfectly and running a roster are not the same instinct.

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Name (English)

Kazuyoshi Tatsunami

Name (Japanese)

立浪和義

Reading

たつなみ かずよし

Born

August 19, 1969 (age 57)

Origin

Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

173 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

• Official sitehttps://tatsunami-kazuyoshi.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/tatsunami_staff/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuyoshi%20Tatsunami
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%8B%E6%B5%AA%E5%92%8C%E7%BE%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2585053

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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