Tatsuya Shimizu

I'll be honest, I went in knowing next to nothing about Tatsuya Shimizu, and I came out kind of rooting for the guy. He's a pitcher out of Fukaya in Saitama, that famously green-onion town, which somehow makes me picture a humble, hard-working kid more than a flashy phenom, and I'm here for it. Born in late 1999, so by 2024 he's a mid-twenties pitcher still in that hungry, climbing phase, and at 182cm he's got that long lever you love to see firing the ball downhill. The number 50 on his Instagram tells its own story; that's a "prove it" number, the kind you wear while you're scrapping to stick around. I don't have stat lines to wax poetic about, but I'll happily cheer the underdog arc and just hope he stays healthy enough to write the rest himself.

Tatsuya Shimizu is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher born on November 3, 1999, in Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture. Standing 182 cm tall, he is known by jersey number 50. His blood type and agency affiliation remain private.

Name (English)

Tatsuya Shimizu

Name (Japanese)

清水達也

Reading

しみず たつや

Born

November 3, 1999 (age 26)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit (卯)

Origin

Fukaya, Saitama, Japan

Height

182cm

Occupation

Baseball Player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/simitatsu.50/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%85%E6%B0%B4%E9%81%94%E4%B9%9F%20(%E6%8A%95%E6%89%8B)

Tags

• From Saitama Prefecture
• Baseball Player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.