Ryoji Kuribayashi

Ryoji Kuribayashi, born in Aisai, Aichi in 1996, pitches for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Nippon Professional Baseball. I have always thought relief pitching demands a strange kind of temperament. You are handed only the moments that are already tense — late innings, narrow margins, the situations where a single mistake erases everything the team spent three hours building. Success is invisible and failure is remembered. Doing that repeatedly, in front of a Hiroshima crowd whose intensity is famous even by Japanese baseball standards, is a job I would not want. That energy is a gift on the good nights and a weight on the bad ones. I will admit the documented record here is sparse, and I am not going to inflate it. But the plain fact of holding a place on an NPB roster is not a small thing — the pipeline into professional Japanese baseball is brutally selective, and staying there is harder than arriving. That single line carries more than it looks like it does.

Name (English)

Ryoji Kuribayashi

Name (Japanese)

栗林良吏

Reading

くりばやし りょうじ

Born

July 9, 1996 (age 30)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

Origin

Aisai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryoji%20Kuribayashi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A0%97%E6%9E%97%E8%89%AF%E5%90%8F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102246767

Tags

• Aichi Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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