Kōhei Shibata

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. He hit .320 in the minor Western League as a Hanshin rookie in 2009 and stuck around for nine seasons with Hanshin and Lotte, the kind of 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.

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Kōhei Shibata (born July 17, 1986) is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder from Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. He stands 177 cm tall. He played for the Hanshin Tigers from 2009 to 2016 and the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2017.

Name (English)

Kōhei Shibata

Name (Japanese)

柴田講平

Reading

しばた こうへい

Born

July 17, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

177cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Tiger

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B4%E7%94%B0%E8%AC%9B%E5%B9%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11534920

Tags

• From Fukuoka Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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