Taishi Kusumoto

Taishi Kusumoto was born on July 7, 1995 in Suita, Osaka, stands 180 cm, went to Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai, and now plays the outfield for the Hanshin Tigers. The shape of that path is what stays with me: an Osaka kid who left for the north to play college ball and then circled all the way back to wear the uniform of the team his home region lives and dies by. Hanshin fandom is not a casual thing — Koshien is loud in a way that has to be experienced — and going from being surrounded by that noise to standing inside it is a strange kind of homecoming. Outfield is also an unglamorous assignment to hold at that level. On a quiet night nothing you do appears in the box score, and a good defensive read is forgotten by the next inning. But a defense only works because someone is reliably out there every game. I have a lot of time for players whose value accumulates in ways the highlight reel never captures.

Name (English)

Taishi Kusumoto

Name (Japanese)

楠本泰史

Reading

くすもと たいし

Born

July 7, 1995 (age 31)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Boar

Origin

Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

180 cm

Occupation

baseball player

University

Tohoku Fukushi University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishi%20Kusumoto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%A0%E6%9C%AC%E6%B3%B0%E5%8F%B2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52083742

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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