Makoto Yoshino

Makoto Yoshino is the kind of guy who flies completely under the radar, and honestly? That's kind of refreshing. Baseball suits that personality perfectly: it's a grind sport, a repetition sport, built for people who find something almost meditative in throwing and swinging the same motion ten thousand times. I don't know the full shape of his career and I'm not going to pretend otherwise, but there's something I genuinely respect about athletes who built their lives around the sport without becoming famous for it. A Saitama kid who loved the game. That's enough of a story for me.

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Makoto Yoshino is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher born on November 19, 1977, in Saitama Prefecture. He stands 182 cm tall, attended Nihon University, and pitched for the Hanshin Tigers from 2000 to 2007 and the Orix Buffaloes from 2008 to 2013.

Name (English)

Makoto Yoshino

Name (Japanese)

吉野誠

Reading

よしの まこと

Born

November 19, 1977 (age 48)

Origin

Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Height

182cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

University

Nihon University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E9%87%8E%E8%AA%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6740005

Tags

• From Saitama Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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