Suguru Iwazaki

Suguru Iwazaki is a left-handed relief pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers, born in Shimizu, Shizuoka, standing 185 cm, wearing number 13. Relief work is the least forgiving job in baseball. Get the outs and nobody notices, because that was the assignment. Give up the run and it is entirely your fault, in front of a Koshien crowd that is not known for gentleness. A starter who has a bad night gets a week to think about it. A reliever might be back out there tomorrow. Doing that year after year, from the left side, in that particular ballpark, requires a kind of emotional insulation I genuinely cannot imagine possessing. There is also a small detail I love: his surname is routinely misread as Iwasaki rather than Iwazaki. A career spent quietly correcting people about your own name feels like a fitting metaphor for the bullpen life, doing essential work while the credit lands somewhere slightly to the left of you. Tigers fans know exactly what they have.

Name (English)

Suguru Iwazaki

Name (Japanese)

岩崎優

Reading

いわざき すぐる

Born

June 19, 1991 (age 35)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Goat

Origin

Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

185 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suguru%20Iwazaki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A9%E5%B4%8E%E5%84%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17580026

Tags

• Shizuoka Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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