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My Take
Seventeen years, one team — that kind of loyalty is almost extinct in modern baseball, and Sohichiro Amaya did it all with the Hiroshima Carp, the scrappy, fan-beloved franchise that operates on heart more than budget. He was never a slugger; 27 career home runs in 844 games tells you that plainly. What he brought was speed — 81 stolen bases, three Western League stolen-base titles before he even broke into the top squad — and a batting sense that peaked in 2009 with a clean .300 average. Fukui isn't exactly a baseball hotbed, but somehow it produced a guy nicknamed the "Hokuriku Ichiro" in high school, which is an absurd amount of pressure to grow up under. He carried it well enough. Retiring after 2018 and sliding straight into commentary on local Hiroshima radio and TV while married to a former Hiroshima Home TV announcer is very, very Hiroshima, and I mean that warmly.
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Overview
Sohichiro Amaya is a Japanese former baseball outfielder and commentator born on November 8, 1983, in Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture. He stands 178 cm tall. He spent his entire career with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp from 2002 to 2018 and has worked as a baseball commentator for RCC since 2019.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Sohichiro Amaya
- Name (Japanese)
- 天谷宗一郎
- Reading
- あまや そういちろう
- Born
- November 8, 1983 (age 42)
- Origin
- Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
- Height
- 178cm
- Occupation
- Baseball player
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Boar
2. Links
3. About this entry
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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.
Frequently asked questions
When was Sohichiro Amaya born?
Sohichiro Amaya was born on November 8, 1983 and is 42 years old.
Where is Sohichiro Amaya from?
Sohichiro Amaya is from Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
What does Sohichiro Amaya do?
Sohichiro Amaya works as Baseball player.
How tall is Sohichiro Amaya?
Sohichiro Amaya is 178 cm tall.
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