Shin'ya Hasegawa

There is very little to say about Shinya Hasegawa yet, and I think that is the honest and interesting part. Born in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, in 2002, he is an outfielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions, and the record attached to his name is mostly blank space: no long award list, no career retrospective, no settled legend. Every entry in a database like this one starts that way, but we usually meet people after the blanks are filled in. Professional baseball in Japan is a brutal sorting machine, and simply holding a roster spot as an outfielder in your early twenties means you have already outlasted an enormous number of people who were also the best player in their town. Whether he becomes a fixture or a footnote is genuinely undecided, which is more than can be said for most of the names here. I would rather read this page again in ten years than pretend I know how it ends.

Name (English)

Shin'ya Hasegawa

Name (Japanese)

長谷川信哉

Reading

はせがわ しんや

Born

May 17, 2002 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

Origin

Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya%20Hasegawa%20(baseball)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E8%B0%B7%E5%B7%9D%E4%BF%A1%E5%93%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108110509

Tags

• Kyoto Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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.