Liam Hendriks

Liam Hendriks is one of those guys who makes you rethink every assumption about where baseball talent comes from — because Perth, Western Australia is not exactly a hotbed of MLB closers. He bounced around the league for years, cycling through Minnesota, Kansas City, Toronto, and Oakland before finally locking in as one of the most dominant relief pitchers in the game. That Oakland stint turned him into a genuine ace of the bullpen, and his run with the Chicago White Sox cemented it. But honestly, what sticks with me most isn't the triple-digit fastball or the saves; it's the way he faced a non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis in early 2022 with total transparency and ferocity, then came back and pitched again. That combination of grit and raw talent, halfway around the world from home, is what makes Hendriks genuinely compelling beyond the stat line.

Name (English)

Liam Hendriks

Name (Japanese)

リアム・ヘンドリックス

Reading

りあむ・へんどりっくす

Born

February 10, 1989 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Snake

Origin

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Height

183 cm

Occupation

baseball player

University

Sacred Heart College, Sorrento

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/hendriks_31/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9

Tags

• Western Australia
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.