Shuya Yamada

I'll be honest, the first thing that got me was the birth year, 2005, which means this kid is barely out of his teens and already grinding it out in pro baseball, and that alone makes me sit up. He's a Sendai boy from Miyagi, up in the snowy northeast, and he came through Sendai Ikuei, which is basically a factory for serious high school ballplayers, so I picture him having been put through the wringer already. I don't pretend to know his stat line cold, but there's something about a kid who chased a white baseball with his teeth gritted through cold Tohoku winters that tells me the spine is straight. Count me among the folks quietly rooting for him.

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Shuya Yamada is a professional baseball player born on August 20, 2005, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He attended Sendai Ikuei Gakuen High School, a school well known for producing elite baseball talent. Still in his early twenties, he competes at the professional level in Japanese baseball. He is an infielder for the Hanshin Tigers, and he played for Japan at the WBSC U-12 World Cup in sixth grade.

Name (English)

Shuya Yamada

Name (Japanese)

山田脩也

Reading

やまだ しゅうや

Born

August 20, 2005 (age 21)

Origin

Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Professional Baseball Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

High school

Sendai Ikuei Gakuen High School

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E7%94%B0%E8%84%A9%E4%B9%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123405990

Tags

• From Miyagi Prefecture
• Professional Baseball Player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.