Shota Tatsuta

Shota Tatsuta — born June 4, 1996, which means he literally just hit 30 as I'm writing this — is a baseball player out of Kawai, Nara, and there's something quietly compelling about that origin story. Nara isn't exactly a baseball powerhouse prefecture; it's ancient temples and deer, not big-league franchises and neon lights. He came up through Yamato Koryo High School, a school in the kind of small agricultural town that produces people who just put their heads down and grind. Standing at 180 cm, he's got the frame for it. He was the ace and cleanup hitter as a freshman, pitched at the spring Koshien, and went to the Nippon-Ham Fighters in the sixth round of the 2014 draft, which says he built his game far from the spotlight, without the luxury of hype carrying him. That kind of quiet, provincial persistence tends to produce ballplayers with real grit. He kept pitching for the JR Hokkaido club after his pro years ended.

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Shota Tatsuta (born June 4, 1996) is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher from Kawai, Nara Prefecture. He attended Nara Prefectural Yamato Koryo High School before pursuing a career in baseball. His height is 180 cm. A sixth-round draft pick in 2014, he pitched for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters from 2015 to 2019 and later for the JR Hokkaido corporate club.

Name (English)

Shota Tatsuta

Name (Japanese)

立田将太

Reading

たつた しょうた

Born

June 4, 1996 (age 30)

Origin

Kawai, Nara Prefecture, Japan

Height

180cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rat

High school

Nara Prefectural Yamato Koryo High School

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%8B%E7%94%B0%E5%B0%86%E5%A4%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18817662

Tags

• From Nara Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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