Sōichirō Yamazaki

Soichiro Yamazaki, born June 15, 1998 in Kaga, Ishikawa, is a pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes — and he stands 189 cm, which is genuinely large for Nippon Professional Baseball. It is the first thing on his file and the hardest thing to ignore. Add the mound and you have a release point that arrives at the batter from an unusually steep angle. But I have always thought height is more complicated a gift than it looks in a pitcher. A tall frame means longer levers, and longer levers mean more places for a delivery to come apart. Repeating the same motion pitch after pitch is harder, not easier, at that size, and the tall arms who last are the ones who solved that problem rather than the ones who were simply given the inches. He also left Ishikawa for Tsuruga Kehi High School across the prefecture line in Fukui, which tells you the commitment predates the physique paying off. The rest of the public record is thin, so I will stop where the facts do.

Name (English)

Sōichirō Yamazaki

Name (Japanese)

山崎颯一郎

Reading

やまざき そういちろう

Born

June 15, 1998 (age 28)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger

Origin

Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

189 cm

Occupation

professional baseball player

High school

Tsuruga Kehi High School

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soichiro%20Yamazaki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%EF%A8%91%E9%A2%AF%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30935636

Tags

• Ishikawa Prefecture
• 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.