Shogo Sakakura

I want to be honest here: the record I have on Shogo Sakakura is thin. Born in May 1998, a catcher for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, and not much else confirmed. So rather than dress up guesses, let me talk about what the position itself means. Catcher is the least forgiving job in baseball. You absorb every pitch, you carry the game plan for the entire staff, you manage the pitcher's confidence inning by inning, and then you are expected to hit as well. A team does not hand that role to a young player casually. That Hiroshima entrusted it to someone in his twenties says something about the trust he earned inside the clubhouse, which is the kind of credit that rarely shows up in a database field. Where his numbers end up is unknown to me. But catchers tend to be remembered less for statistics than for the eras they anchored, and he is anchoring one now.

Name (English)

Shogo Sakakura

Name (Japanese)

坂倉将吾

Reading

さかくら しょうご

Born

May 29, 1998 (age 28)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger

Height

176 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dgo%20Sakakura
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9D%82%E5%80%89%E5%B0%86%E5%90%BE
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29526420

Tags

• 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.