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Yasunobu Okugawa is listed as a baseball player. The date of birth on record is April 16, 2001. That puts Yasunobu Okugawa at 25 years old in 2026.
My Take
Yasunobu Okugawa, born April 16, 2001, is a pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. What strikes me about him is how early the label arrived. In Japan, a high-school pitcher with clean mechanics gets crowned as the next great arm before he has thrown a single professional inning, and the expectation runs ahead of the body carrying it. Okugawa has spent significant stretches away from the mound with injury, and each absence brings the same impatient chorus about promise unfulfilled. I find that chorus unfair. He is still in his mid-twenties. The years spent rebuilding an arm are not a gap in a career; they are part of it, and often the part that decides how long the career lasts. I would rather judge him by whether he comes back able to pitch for a decade than by whether he matched a teenage forecast. When that fastball is working, it is worth the wait.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Yasunobu Okugawa
- Name (Japanese)
- 奥川恭伸
- Reading
- おくがわ やすのぶ
- Born
- April 16, 2001 (age 25)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Snake
- Occupation
- baseball player
2. Links
- Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunobu%20Okugawa
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%A5%E5%B7%9D%E6%81%AD%E4%BC%B8
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73111645
3. About this entry
Tags
- 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.
Frequently asked questions
When was Yasunobu Okugawa born?
Born April 16, 2001 (age 25).
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Yasunobu Okugawa works as baseball player.