Tatsuro Iwasaki

Tatsuro Iwasaki is one of those baseball guys where I'll be straight with you — he's not the name that jumps to mind when you rattle off Kanagawa legends, but he carved out parts of nine seasons with Chunichi and Rakuten. Capricorns grind. They don't do flashy; they do relentless. Growing up in Seya Ward, which is basically the quiet residential edge of Yokohama — not the hip port waterfront, not the glittery city center — gives off that exact energy. You get raised somewhere low-key, you learn to earn things the slow way. His first home run was a walk-off in extra innings, and a utility man's career like that makes me respect the work ethic more, not less. Some guys build their whole thing in the background, and that's a legitimate way to play.

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Tatsuro Iwasaki is a Japanese former professional baseball infielder born on December 28, 1984, in Seya Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. He stands 175 cm tall. After playing industrial-league ball for Nippon Oil ENEOS, he played for the Chunichi Dragons from 2008 to 2012 and again in 2017, and for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles from 2013 to 2015.

Name (English)

Tatsuro Iwasaki

Name (Japanese)

岩﨑達郎

Reading

いわさき たつろう

Born

December 28, 1984 (age 41)

Origin

Seya Ward, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

175cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A9%EF%A8%91%E9%81%94%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11474562

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

September 26, 2026

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