Seiya Kinami

I'll be honest, Seiya Kinami is exactly the kind of ballplayer I find myself quietly rooting for. A shortstop out of Aomori who ended up anchoring the infield for the Hanshin Tigers, surrounded by maybe the most intense, demanding fanbase in all of Japanese baseball, and he just keeps showing up and doing the unglamorous work. He's not the flashy slugger who grabs headlines, he's the steady glove who makes the play in the moment it matters and keeps a rally alive. There's something about that grind-it-out, defense-first temperament that gets me every time. He won a Golden Glove and a Best Nine Award in 2023, the year the Tigers won the Japan Series, and I just hope he stays in that uniform raising hell for years to come.

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Seiya Kinami is a Japanese professional baseball player born on June 15, 1994, in Aomori Prefecture. He plays shortstop for the Hanshin Tigers, who drafted him from the Honda company team in 2018, and in 2023 he won a Golden Glove and a Best Nine Award and was part of the Japan Series champion team.

Name (English)

Seiya Kinami

Name (Japanese)

木浪聖也

Reading

きなみ せいや

Born

June 15, 1994 (age 32)

Origin

Aomori Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Dog

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%A8%E6%B5%AA%E8%81%96%E4%B9%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59551782

Tags

• From Aomori Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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