Xavier Batista

Xavier Batista is one of those quietly fascinating baseball journeymen whose career map reads like an adventure novel — born in San Pedro de Macorís, the Dominican city that has produced more major leaguers per capita than just about anywhere on earth, Batista carved his own path not through the American system but through Asia. He put in time with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in Japan's top league and the Fubon Guardians in Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League before landing in the Hokkaido Frontier League. He never became a household name, but I find real respect for guys who keep grinding at the craft across languages and time zones rather than calling it quits. At 189 cm with Dominican athletic bloodlines, the tools were clearly there — the story is just still being written.

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Name (English)

Xavier Batista

Name (Japanese)

サビエル・バティスタ

Reading

さびえる・ばてぃすた

Born

January 18, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic

Height

189 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier%20Batista
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%93%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30934942

Tags

• San Pedro de Macorís
• baseball player

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.