Kōta Inoue

Kota Inoue was born in Daito, Osaka, in August 2001, and he now plays the outfield for the Chiba Lotte Marines in Nippon Professional Baseball. Osaka is baseball country, so the road from there to the professional game is well travelled, but it is still a very narrow one. What interests me most is how empty his record still looks: no awards listed, no career milestones, barely any personal detail — just a position and a club. He is twenty-four, which for a hitter is the start of the good years rather than the end. The outfield is an unforgiving place to earn a living, because if you are not producing at the plate there is nowhere to hide. Almost everything about him is still unwritten, and I find that far more interesting to watch than a finished career.

Name (English)

Kōta Inoue

Name (Japanese)

井上広大

Born

August 12, 2001 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Origin

Daitō-shi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

baseball player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/inoue.32/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%95%E4%B8%8A%E5%BA%83%E5%A4%A7

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-07-27

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