Naoto Chino

Naoto Chino was born in February 1999 in Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, attended Daiichi Gakuin High School, and now plays infield for the Chunichi Dragons. The record I have in front of me lists no titles and no career numbers, which I read not as an absence of achievement but as a career still being written. Infielders survive on things box scores barely register: the first step, the transfer, the throw that arrives half a beat early. Managers keep those players even when the batting average is unremarkable. He is also of the generation for whom being visible online is simply normal, with an active Instagram and X presence rather than the closed-off image older Japanese players cultivated. I like that shift. And somewhere in Sanjo there are people who check the Dragons box score every morning specifically for one name.

Name (English)

Naoto Chino

Name (Japanese)

知野直人

Reading

ちの なおと

Born

February 16, 1999 (age 27)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rabbit

Origin

Sanjō-shi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

professional baseball player

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/_pepe60_/
• Xhttps://x.com/pepe6023
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoto%20Chino
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%A5%E9%87%8E%E7%9B%B4%E4%BA%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64782756

Tags

• Niigata Prefecture
• professional 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.