Shuto Ogata

Shuto Ogata was born on May 15, 1999 in Tomiya, Miyagi Prefecture, went to Ishikawa High School, and now pitches for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in Nippon Professional Baseball. At 181 cm he has the frame you want on a mound, and beyond that the record here is thin. I find that honest rather than disappointing. Japanese professional baseball is full of pitchers whose names never travel abroad but who survived an absurdly narrow funnel: thousands of high school players, a handful of draft slots, and then the long grind between the farm team and the first team. Getting a uniform at all is the achievement most fans skip past. For readers outside Japan, Ogata is a useful reminder that the league is not just its exported stars. It is mostly players like him, from prefectures most foreigners could not place on a map, throwing hard in front of crowds who know exactly who they are.

Name (English)

Shuto Ogata

Name (Japanese)

尾形崇斗

Reading

おがた しゅうと

Born

May 15, 1999 (age 27)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rabbit

Origin

Tomiya, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Height

181 cm

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Ishikawa High School

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuto%20Ogata
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BE%E5%BD%A2%E5%B4%87%E6%96%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57314556

Tags

• Miyagi Prefecture
• 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.