Tyrone Woods

Among Japanese baseball fans of a certain era, Tyrone Woods is still shorthand for the imported slugger who actually stuck around. Born Walter Tyrone Woods in Brooksville, Florida, in 1969, he took an unusual route. Five seasons in the Korea Baseball Organization came first, and only then six more in Nippon Professional Baseball, mostly at first base. Eleven years playing in Asia is a serious number. Foreign players in both leagues have a brutal attrition rate. They arrive with reputations, struggle with unfamiliar strike zones and travel schedules, and are gone inside a season or two. Woods did not just survive that filter once but twice, in two different countries with different styles of pitching and different expectations of an import. That tells me something about adaptability that a home run column alone will not capture. He is remembered as a power hitter, which he was, but the more impressive line on his record is simply the length of it. Staying is harder than arriving.

Name (English)

Tyrone Woods

Name (Japanese)

タイロン・ウッズ

Reading

たいろん・うっず

Born

August 16, 1969 (age 57)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

Origin

Brooksville, Florida, United States

Height

185 cm

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Hernando High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone%20Woods
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q624318

Tags

• Florida
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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.