Ryōsuke Nishikawa

Picked in the fifth round out of high school by his home-prefecture Chiba Lotte Marines in the 2020 draft, Ryosuke Nishikawa came in carrying serious hype — 55 career high school home runs and batting practice shots that cleared 100 meters will do that to a scouting report. The raw power was real. What followed was the kind of story NPB farms are full of: three seasons grinding through the minor league system without cracking the top roster, strikeout numbers that wouldn't budge fast enough, then a release and a tryout that didn't end with a second NPB shot. By 2024 he was suiting up for Kufu Hayate Ventures Shizuoka, and in 2026 he headed to France to play for the Rouen Huskies — not the end of anything. He's 24 years old. Guys with his bat speed find their footing in stranger places than that. I'm not writing this one off yet.

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Ryōsuke Nishikawa (西川僚祐) is a Japanese professional baseball player born on April 19, 2002, in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture. A graduate of Tokai University Sagami High School, he was drafted by the Chiba Lotte Marines in the fifth round in 2020, played for them until 2023 and for Kufu Hayate Ventures Shizuoka in 2024–2025, and joined the Rouen Huskies in France in 2026.

Name (English)

Ryōsuke Nishikawa

Name (Japanese)

西川僚祐

Reading

にしかわ りょうすけ

Born

April 19, 2002 (age 24)

Origin

Funabashi, Chiba, Japan

Occupation

Professional Baseball Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%B7%9D%E5%83%9A%E7%A5%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105704424

Tags

• From Chiba Prefecture
• Professional Baseball Player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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