Rodolfo Castro

Rodolfo Castro is the kind of player who makes you do a double-take when you check his bio — born in 1999, from a tiny town in Elías Piña Province in the Dominican Republic, and already he's logged time in the majors with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Phillies before heading over to Japan to play for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. That's a genuinely wild career arc for a guy still in his mid-twenties. The Dominican Republic keeps producing big-league talent at a ridiculous rate, and Castro is part of that proud tradition — a 6-foot infielder with the kind of versatility that gets scouts excited. I'm honestly curious where this chapter in NPB takes him; a lot of Latin players have used Japan as a launching pad for a second act, and at his age, the story is very much still being written.

Name (English)

Rodolfo Castro

Name (Japanese)

ロドルフォ・カストロ

Reading

ろどるふぉ・かすとろ

Born

May 21, 1999 (age 27)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rabbit

Origin

El Llano, Elías Piña Province, Dominican Republic

Height

183 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AD

Tags

• Elías Piña Province
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.