Ryoji Moriyama

Honestly, there's something quietly compelling about a guy from Kitakyushu — that city's got a blue-collar toughness to it that you can't fake, and when I hear that Moriyama Ryoji stood 183cm on a baseball diamond, I just picture this solid, no-nonsense presence who earned every inch of his spot through sheer grind. Born in '63, which puts him right in that era of Japanese baseball where mental grit was basically the whole curriculum, and leaving the local city university to go pro as a first-round pick reads as exactly the kind of grounded, unflashy backstory that ages well. He's not someone who floats around in highlight reels, and I actually respect that — the careers that built themselves quietly, without a PR machine, tend to be the ones with real backbone underneath.

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Ryoji Moriyama is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher and coach born on July 20, 1963, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. He stands 183 cm tall and attended the University of Kitakyushu without graduating. A first-round draft pick in 1986, he pitched for the Seibu Lions (1987–1992) and the Yokohama BayStars (1993–1995), then coached for teams including Seibu and Rakuten, and is now the second-team manager of the Samsung Lions.

Name (English)

Ryoji Moriyama

Name (Japanese)

森山良二

Reading

もりやま りょうじ

Born

July 20, 1963 (age 63)

Origin

Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

183cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

University

University of Kitakyushu

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E5%B1%B1%E8%89%AF%E4%BA%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11117075

Tags

• From Fukuoka Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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