Torai Fushimi

Catcher is the least glamorous job in Japanese baseball and, to me, the most revealing one. Torai Fushimi — born 12 May 1990 in Chitose, Hokkaido, 182 cm, a Tokai University product — has built a career out of work that never makes a highlight reel: managing a pitching staff, absorbing the blame for runs he did not give up, keeping a bad inning from turning into a disaster. His résumé reads like a reference letter. Orix Buffaloes, then the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, and now the Hanshin Tigers. Clubs do not keep acquiring a catcher for his batting line; they acquire him because pitchers trust him. There is a small joke in it too, a man named for the tiger ending up in Tigers stripes. Box scores flatten catchers into two or three numbers, so foreign fans rarely learn these names. Watch a whole season and you notice who steadies the staff.

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Name (English)

Torai Fushimi

Name (Japanese)

伏見寅威

Reading

ふしみ とらい

Born

May 12, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Chitose, Hokkaidō, Japan

Height

182 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

University

Tokai University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torai%20Fushimi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8F%E8%A6%8B%E5%AF%85%E5%A8%81
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11381100

Tags

• Hokkaidō
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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