Tomoya Mori

Tomoya Mori is listed at 170 cm, which in the world of professional catchers is roughly a rounding error, and he has spent his career making that fact irrelevant. Catchers are supposed to be big, immovable, defensive first. Mori arrived as one of the best hitting catchers Japanese baseball has produced in years, a left-handed bat with genuine violence in the swing, and simply refused to fit the mold. He built his name over many seasons with the Saitama Seibu Lions before moving to the Orix Buffaloes, and I think that transfer is underrated as a test of character. When a hitter changes teams, he brings his swing with him. When a catcher changes teams, he has to relearn an entire pitching staff, their egos, their tells, their bad days, from zero. Mori did it without visible drama. Born in Osaka, and he carries a certain Osaka bluntness about the whole thing. For anyone who has ever been told they were too small for the position they wanted, he is a useful piece of evidence.

Name (English)

Tomoya Mori

Name (Japanese)

森友哉

Reading

もり ともや

Born

August 8, 1995 (age 31)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Boar

Origin

Minami-ku, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

170 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoya%20Mori
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E5%8F%8B%E5%93%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15272492

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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