Toshihiro Sugiura

I keep coming back to how much of this profile is blank. Toshihiro Sugiura, born in Obihiro in Hokkaido, stands 189 cm and has spent his career on the pitching mound after Kokugakuin University. No award list, no timeline, no signature moment to point at, just a long run in professional baseball and a marriage to the announcer Asami Konno that tends to draw more headlines than his pitching does. I think that kind of career is badly underrated. Staying employed at the top level of a sport for years, without ever becoming a story, takes a durability highlight reels never capture.

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Name (English)

Toshihiro Sugiura

Name (Japanese)

杉浦稔大

Reading

すぎうら としひろ

Born

February 25, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Obihiro, Hokkaidō, Japan

Height

189 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

University

Kokugakuin University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihiro%20Sugiura
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%89%E6%B5%A6%E7%A8%94%E5%A4%A7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17159900

Tags

• Hokkaidō
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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.