Ryuhei Matsuyama

Matsuyama is listed at 176 centimeters, which is not big for a professional outfielder anywhere in the world. That single number tells you the shape of his career: he survived on hitting, not on physical intimidation. He came out of Osaki, a small town in Kagoshima at the southern end of Kyushu, went to Kyushu International University, and spent eighteen seasons as an outfielder for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp before moving to Oisix Niigata Albirex. I find the Hiroshima connection the most interesting part. The Carp are unusual in Japanese baseball — a club without a giant corporate parent, sustained by a genuinely local fanbase that tends to adopt players for life rather than for a contract cycle. A hitter who spends years in that lineup becomes a fixture in a way that a bigger-market star does not. Ask anyone in Hiroshima and I suspect the name lands immediately.

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Name (English)

Ryuhei Matsuyama

Name (Japanese)

松山竜平

Reading

まつやま りゅうへい

Born

September 18, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

Osaki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Height

176 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

University

Kyushu International University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuhei%20Matsuyama
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E5%B1%B1%E7%AB%9C%E5%B9%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11529912

Tags

• Kagoshima Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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