Ryūsei Terachi

I'll be honest, I'm a sucker for a prospect, and Ryusei Terachi is exactly the kind of kid I love to keep an eye on. Born in 2005 in Sumida, the old downtown Tokyo neighborhood under the shadow of Skytree, he's barely out of his teens, which means the whole career is still ahead of him. What really gets me is the Meitoku Gijuku connection, that famously brutal baseball boarding school tucked away in the Kochi mountains, where you basically eat, sleep, and breathe the game. You don't survive a place like that without grit and fundamentals drilled into your bones. I can't pretend to know his stat line, but the setup is pure underdog catnip to me, and I'm quietly rooting for him to climb the ladder one rung at a time.

Ryūsei Terachi is a professional baseball player born on August 19, 2005, in Sumida, Tokyo. He attended Meitoku Gijuku High School in Kochi Prefecture, a school renowned for its rigorous baseball program. Still in the early stages of his career as of 2024, Terachi represents a promising young talent from the Tokyo area making his way in Japanese professional baseball.

Name (English)

Ryūsei Terachi

Name (Japanese)

寺地隆成

Reading

てらち りゅうせい

Born

August 19, 2005 (age 20)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster (酉)

Origin

Sumida, Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Professional baseball player

High school

Meitoku Gijuku High School

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%BA%E5%9C%B0%E9%9A%86%E6%88%90

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Professional baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.