Ryoji Nakata

At 171 cm he's never going to be the towering presence scouts dream about, but baseball history is full of guys who made that exact height irrelevant through sheer craft and baseball IQ, and I'd bet my last dollar he's that type. Not a lot of flash on his public profile, and honestly that kind of low-key dedication is its own statement — Yao isn't glamorous, it's a real working-class Osaka city, and someone who came up through that and made it to professional ball clearly wasn't relying on hype to carry him.

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Ryoji Nakata is a Japanese baseball player born on November 3, 1987, in Yao, Osaka Prefecture. He stands 171 cm tall. Further details about his career, agency, and personal life are not publicly available.

Name (English)

Ryoji Nakata

Name (Japanese)

中田亮二

Reading

なかた りょうじ

Born

November 3, 1987 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

Origin

Yao, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

171cm

Occupation

Baseball player

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E7%94%B0%E4%BA%AE%E4%BA%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7385294

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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