Takuya Yasaki

Takuya Yasaki, born on New Year's Eve in 1994 in Nakano, Tokyo, is a pitcher currently with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows after coming up through the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. He is also known as Takuya Kato, which is the kind of detail that quietly complicates a career. He came out of Keio University, one of the Tokyo Big6 programs that carry real prestige in Japan, and he has kept a place in Nippon Professional Baseball across two organizations. Foreign fans tend to read a trade as a demotion. I read it the other way around: a second club wanted him, and pitchers who move and keep pitching are pitchers someone still believes in. He is not the sort of player who anchors a highlight reel, but bullpens are won by people like this. Whether a team can survive August often comes down to whether it has one more arm it trusts, and that is an unglamorous form of value I have a lot of time for.

Name (English)

Takuya Yasaki

Name (Japanese)

矢崎拓也

Reading

やさき たくや

Born

December 31, 1994 (age 31)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dog

Origin

Nakano, Tokyo, Japan

Height

176 cm

Occupation

baseball player

University

Keio University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuya%20Yasaki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%A2%E5%B4%8E%E6%8B%93%E4%B9%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28688875

Tags

• Tokyo
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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