Taisei Kudō

Taisei Kudo, born November 19, 2001 in Akita City, pitches for the Hanshin Tigers. What draws me to his file is the route. He went to Meio High School in Akita, then Tokyo International University, and only then into professional baseball — not the compressed prodigy path that Japanese sports coverage loves, but the longer one, with an extra four years of proving it. For readers outside Japan, that matters: Hanshin is one of the loudest, most demanding fanbases in the sport, and their pitching staff is not a place where a roster spot is handed over. Getting there from a northern prefecture by way of a university program is a real climb. His career is still early enough that the record here is thin, and I would rather say that plainly than invent a narrative arc he has not lived yet. But a pitcher who took the long way and still ended up at Koshien is, to me, worth watching precisely because nothing about it was inevitable.

Name (English)

Taisei Kudō

Name (Japanese)

工藤泰成

Born

November 19, 2001 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

Origin

Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

professional baseball player

High school

Meio High School

University

Tokyo International University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kudo__taisei/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taisei%20Kud%C5%8D
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%A5%E8%97%A4%E6%B3%B0%E6%88%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132431775

Tags

• Akita 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.