Shingo Takeyama

Shingo Takeyama is the kind of baseball player I find myself quietly rooting for — a guy from Nagoya's Midori Ward who probably never chased headlines, just reps. Born in the summer of '84 under Cancer, which tends to produce the stubborn, quietly devoted type, he hit his forties right around the time ballplayers either fall apart or reveal a whole new layer of cagey wisdom, and I'm betting Takeyama was in the second camp. At 177 cm he's no towering presence, which usually means a player had to out-think the competition rather than overpower them. I don't know every chapter of his career, but there's something appealing about a Nagoya kid who put in the work with zero fanfare — the grind-it-out type who earns trust in the dugout long before anyone writes a feature about him.

Shingo Takeyama is a Japanese baseball player born on June 22, 1984, in Midori Ward, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. He stands 177 cm tall. Further career and personal details are not publicly available.

Name (English)

Shingo Takeyama

Name (Japanese)

武山真吾

Reading

たけやま しんご

Born

June 22, 1984 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat (子)

Origin

Midori Ward, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

177cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shingo.takeyama/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E5%B1%B1%E7%9C%9F%E5%90%BE

Tags

• From Aichi Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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