Tatsuki Kuwahara

Tatsuki Kuwahara is one of those guys whose story is bigger than his stat line. Born July 4, 1996 — a proper summer kid, Cancer through and through — standing 180 cm tall, and a Hiroshima Carp infielder from 2015 to 2021. That's the part that gets me: pro sports has this brutal transparency where everything you've built since you were a kid gets distilled into numbers on a scoreboard, and you either hold up or you don't. He reached the first team only briefly, in 2020, but seven years of doing the work at that level says something real. Mid-90s generation, same cohort that grew up watching the sport and then decided to actually chase it — there's something quietly admirable about that kind of commitment.

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Tatsuki Kuwahara is a Japanese former professional baseball player born on July 4, 1996. A 180 cm infielder from Kikukawa, Shizuoka, he homered at both the spring and summer Koshien tournaments for Tokoha Gakuen Kikukawa High School, was drafted in the fifth round by the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in 2014, and played for them until 2021.

Name (English)

Tatsuki Kuwahara

Name (Japanese)

桒原樹

Reading

くわはら たつき

Born

July 4, 1996 (age 30)

Origin

Kikugawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

180cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rat

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%92%E5%8E%9F%E6%A8%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18817506

Tags

• baseball player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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