Shunpeita Yamashita

Shunpeita Yamashita was born in Fukuoka in 2002, which means that as I write this he is still in his early twenties and pitching in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Orix Buffaloes. That alone is worth pausing on. Professional pitching is unforgiving in a specific way — the mechanics that make a young arm exceptional are the same mechanics that can break it, and simply staying in a top-level rotation is an achievement that raw talent does not guarantee. I want to be honest about the limits of what can be said here: the record on him is thin. No major award list, no long timeline. But a short entry on a young athlete is not a verdict, it is a timestamp. Everything interesting about a career like this is still ahead of it, and profiles written at this stage tend to be the ones worth rereading in five years — either as an early sighting of something remarkable, or as a reminder of how narrow the margin is. Right now he is a name I would keep an eye on rather than one I would summarise.

Name (English)

Shunpeita Yamashita

Name (Japanese)

山下舜平大

Reading

やました しゅんぺいた

Born

July 16, 2002 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

Origin

Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

baseball player / professional baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunpeita%20Yamashita
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%8B%E8%88%9C%E5%B9%B3%E5%A4%A7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102246722

Tags

• Fukuoka Prefecture
• baseball player
• professional 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.