Shinta Hifumi

I'll be honest, the first thing that got me was the name. Shinta Hifumi, written with the characters for one-two-three, is the kind of name you read twice and then quietly admire, because it's both lucky-sounding and impossible to forget. Beyond that, what I picture is an Osaka kid who grew up big and grew up to play ball: 187 centimeters of presence, born in 1992, the sort of frame that just looks settled and reassuring standing out on a diamond. I don't have a highlight reel to wave around here, and I'd rather not invent one, but there's something I genuinely like about a player whose story reads as quiet, hometown-grounded, head-down work rather than flash. As a fan of that unglamorous grind, I'm rooting for the big guy.

Shinta Hifumi (一二三慎太) is a Japanese professional baseball player born on September 29, 1992, in Minami Ward, Osaka Prefecture. Standing 187 cm tall, he is known for the striking memorability of his given name, which reads as the Japanese counting sequence "one-two-three." Beyond his Osaka origins and physical stature, most details of his career and personal life have not been disclosed publicly.

Name (English)

Shinta Hifumi

Name (Japanese)

一二三慎太

Reading

ひふみ しんた

Born

September 29, 1992 (age 33)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey (申)

Origin

Minami Ward, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

187cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shinta0929/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E4%BA%8C%E4%B8%89%E6%85%8E%E5%A4%AA

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• 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.