Yasuaki Yamasaki

I'll be honest, there's a specific kind of tension I love about a closer, and Yasuaki Yamasaki sits right in the middle of it. When he jogs out for the ninth, the whole game seems to hold its breath, and that's the job: zero room for error, one bad pitch and the night unravels. What gets me is how unbothered he looks doing it. A Tokyo kid out of Asia University, he turned into the guy who slams the door, and that nasty diving splitter is the part everyone remembers, hitters flailing at something that just vanishes. Closing is brutal because failure is so public, yet he keeps clawing back to the role year after year. That stubbornness, the quiet refusal to stay knocked down, is the thing I quietly stand and clap for.

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Yasuaki Yamasaki is a Japanese professional baseball player born on October 2, 1992, in Arakawa, Tokyo. He attended Asia University, where he developed as a pitcher before advancing to professional play. He pitches for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, for whom he has long served as closer.

Name (English)

Yasuaki Yamasaki

Name (Japanese)

山﨑康晃

Reading

やまさき やすあき

Born

October 2, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan

Height

178 cm

Occupation

Baseball Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

University

Asia University

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%EF%A8%91%E5%BA%B7%E6%99%83
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18759579

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Baseball Player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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