Tomoyuki Kaida

Honestly, guys like Tomoyuki Kaida are the ones I have a soft spot for — no flashy headlines, no viral moments, just a career built the hard way through baseball. Born in Mihara, Hiroshima in 1987, raised somewhere between the Seto Inland Sea and a dusty practice field, he came up through Kamo High School and then Komazawa University, which tells you everything: this is a guy who earned every step on the ladder. What impresses me is that he didn't stop at playing — he transitioned into managing and commentary too, which means he thinks the game, not just plays it. That's a rare kind of baseball intelligence. He's still only in his late thirties, which means there's a whole second chapter ahead of him in the dugout. The quiet, grind-it-out career type. I'm rooting for him.

This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.

Tomoyuki Kaida is a Japanese baseball figure born on September 2, 1987, in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture. He attended Hiroshima Prefectural Kamo High School before going on to Komazawa University, building a career that has spanned playing, managing, and commentary roles. Standing 179 cm tall, he is a Virgo born in the Year of the Rabbit. A left-handed pitcher, he joined the Orix Buffaloes from Nippon Life as a fourth-round pick in 2011, played for the club from 2012 to 2022, and has managed the Himeji Egretters since 2024.

Name (English)

Tomoyuki Kaida

Name (Japanese)

海田智行

Reading

かいだ ともゆき

Born

September 2, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Height

179 cm

Occupation

Baseball Player / Baseball Manager / Baseball Commentator

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

High school

Hiroshima Prefectural Kamo High School

University

Komazawa University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B5%B7%E7%94%B0%E6%99%BA%E8%A1%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11559076

Tags

• From Hiroshima
• Baseball Player
• Baseball Manager
• Baseball Commentator

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.