Naoki Yoshikawa

Naoki Yoshikawa is the kind of ballplayer I end up rooting for without deciding to. Born in 1995 in Hashima, Gifu, he came to the Yomiuri Giants as a first-round pick and made his case with his glove and his legs rather than his bat. Second base is where small margins show: the first step, the footwork on a turn, the throw nobody notices because it arrived on time. Injuries have interrupted him more than once, and every comeback meant winning the job back from scratch. That is a stubbornness no box score records. Give me the quiet infielder over the highlight-reel slugger any day.

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Name (English)

Naoki Yoshikawa

Name (Japanese)

吉川尚輝

Reading

よしかわ なおき

Born

February 8, 1995 (age 31)

Origin

Hashima, Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Height

177 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Boar

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nokyskw2/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoki%20Yoshikawa
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E5%B7%9D%E5%B0%9A%E8%BC%9D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27920883

Tags

• Gifu Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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