Matayoshi Katsuki

Katsuki Matayoshi was born in 1990 in Urasoe, Okinawa, made his name with the Chunichi Dragons, later pitched for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, and is now with the Leones de Yucatan in the Mexican League. It is that last item that interests me most. A pitcher with a long Japanese career choosing, in his thirties, to keep going in Mexico is not the easy option. Different language, different climate, different rhythm to the game, and a clubhouse where nothing you did before automatically counts. You rebuild your credibility from scratch. He is a right-handed reliever at 181 cm who came up throwing from an unusual angle, which is exactly the kind of pitcher a bullpen cannot replace, because nobody else on the roster looks like that. Careers in relief are usually short and quietly ended. That he is still taking the ball, on another continent, is the most eloquent thing on his record.

Name (English)

Matayoshi Katsuki

Name (Japanese)

又吉克樹

Reading

またよし かつき

Born

November 4, 1990 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

Origin

Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

181 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuki%20Matayoshi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%88%E5%90%89%E5%85%8B%E6%A8%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15304330

Tags

• Okinawa Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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.