My Take
Kohei Shibata is the kind of baseball player who makes you feel like the sport still has room for quiet guys who just grind — born in Kitakyushu, which is already a personality statement in itself, a city built on steel and port grit rather than glamour. He came up through Nippon Professional Baseball as an outfielder, not a household name by any stretch, but that almost feels like the point. The man keeps almost zero public profile — no splashy social media, no agency drama, just a Cancer born in the year of the Tiger, which if you buy into that stuff means someone who's guarded on the outside and burning on the inside. I don't know his full career numbers by heart, but I know the type: the guy who shows up every spring, earns his roster spot, and doesn't need a highlight reel to justify his existence. Kitakyushu raised him, and that alone tells me something real is in there.
Overview
Kōhei Shibata is a Japanese baseball player born on July 17, 1986, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. He stands 177 cm tall. Detailed career and personal information is not publicly disclosed.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Kōhei Shibata
- Name (Japanese)
- 柴田講平
- Reading
- しばた こうへい
- Born
- July 17, 1986 (age 39)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Tiger (寅)
- Origin
- Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 177cm
- Agency
- Private
- Active years
- Unknown
- Occupation
- Baseball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
- Debut
- Unknown
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B4%E7%94%B0%E8%AC%9B%E5%B9%B3
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.