Taiki Hamada

Taiki Hamada was drafted out of Meiho High School by the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2018, played for them through 2025, and moved to the Hanshin Tigers in 2026. He was born on September 4, 2000, in Yahatanishi ward of Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, and he plays the outfield professionally. In 2020 he was one of three Yakult batters who opened a game with three straight home runs, something that had happened only five times in the league's history. A move to a new club in his mid-twenties is not an ending, it is runway. Fukuoka is baseball country, the kind of place that turns out players already hardened by competition before they ever go pro, and an outfielder from that soil still has the entire middle of his career ahead of him. My bet is that anyone returning to this page in five years finds it too crowded rather than too bare.

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Name (English)

Taiki Hamada

Name (Japanese)

濱田太貴

Reading

はまだ たいき

Born

September 4, 2000 (age 26)

Origin

Yahatanishi-ku, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dragon

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiki%20Hamada
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BF%B1%E7%94%B0%E5%A4%AA%E8%B2%B4
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Tags

• Fukuoka Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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