Ryōta Satō

Ryota Sato is a baseball player out of Nagano, that landlocked mountain prefecture where the winters are brutal and the people tend to be quietly tough — and honestly that vibe tracks for me. At 186 centimeters he has the frame to back it up too. He was a seventh-round pick of the Chunichi Dragons out of Kokugakuin University, pitched in just 6 first-team games, and has stayed with the club as a batting-practice pitcher, and here is the thing — Japanese baseball has always been held together by players like this, guys who show up and grind without the spotlight. That counts for something, even if the record books do not always reflect it.

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Ryōta Satō is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher born on September 2, 1983, in Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture. He stands 186 cm tall. A left-hander from Kokugakuin University, he was drafted by the Chunichi Dragons in 2005, pitched in 6 games over three seasons, and now works for the Dragons as a batting-practice pitcher.

Name (English)

Ryōta Satō

Name (Japanese)

佐藤亮太 (野球)

Reading

さとう りょうた

Born

September 2, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Height

186cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E8%97%A4%E4%BA%AE%E5%A4%AA%20(%E9%87%8E%E7%90%83)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11383627

Tags

• from Nagano Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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