Masafumi Suenaga

Masafumi Suenaga is the kind of baseball player who flies mostly under the radar outside of serious fans, and honestly that kind of quiet career has its own appeal. At 175 cm he wasn't the imposing physical specimen scouts dream about, but compact players who last in pro ball usually earn their spot through smarts and consistency rather than raw tools. Hailed in high school as "the second Maeda," he spent 2000 to 2012 with the Carp while injuries kept him from a regular spot, and he now scouts Kyushu for the club, which makes me weirdly more curious about him, not less. Some careers speak loudest in the silence around them.

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Masafumi Suenaga is a former Japanese professional baseball outfielder born on June 8, 1981. He stands 175 cm tall. Drafted in the fourth round by the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in 1999 out of Saga Higashi High School, he played for the club until 2012 and now scouts the Kyushu region for it.

Name (English)

Masafumi Suenaga

Name (Japanese)

末永真史

Reading

すえなが まさふみ

Born

June 8, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Kanzaki, Saga Prefecture, Japan

Height

175cm

Occupation

Baseball Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rooster

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%AB%E6%B0%B8%E7%9C%9F%E5%8F%B2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11519777

Tags

• Baseball Player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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