Yasuo Sano

Yasuo Sano is one of those players who exists mostly in the margins of baseball coverage, and honestly that makes me kind of root for him more. He's a Bangkok-born lefty who grew up in Saitama, set a university league wins record and then spent eight seasons with Seibu, which in my experience usually means the guy quietly put in the work without a PR team packaging him for consumption. Pro baseball in Japan has its megastars, sure, but the sport runs on guys like this — steady, unspectacular from the outside, probably obsessive about mechanics in the bullpen when no one's watching. I don't know his stats cold, but I respect the archetype deeply.

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Yasuo Sano is a former professional baseball pitcher born on January 18, 1993, in Bangkok, Thailand, to a Thai mother, and raised in Wako, Saitama. A left-hander who set his league's career wins record at Heisei International University, he pitched for the Saitama Seibu Lions from 2015 to 2022.

Name (English)

Yasuo Sano

Name (Japanese)

佐野泰雄

Reading

さの やすお

Born

January 18, 1993 (age 33)

Origin

Bangkok, Thailand

Height

177cm

Occupation

Baseball Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rooster

University

Heisei International University

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E9%87%8E%E6%B3%B0%E9%9B%84
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18817620

Tags

• Baseball Player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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