Yasutaka Shiomi

Yasutaka Shiomi, born 1993 in Sagamihara, is an outfielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. What draws me to his profile is the route he took: Buso High School, then four years at Teikyo University, and only then the professional draft. In Japanese baseball the romantic story is the high-school phenom drafted straight out of the summer tournament. The college route is slower and less celebrated, but it produces players who arrive already knowing what their actual weapon is. Shiomi is 179 cm — unremarkable by professional standards, which means nothing about his game is going to be solved by raw physical advantage. Outfield is also the least forgiving place to be merely adequate. A bat that goes quiet cannot be covered by the glove, and a glove that slips cannot be covered by speed; you need all of it working at once. Holding a place there in a top professional league, year after year, is an achievement that box scores tend to understate.

Name (English)

Yasutaka Shiomi

Name (Japanese)

塩見泰隆

Reading

しおみ やすたか

Born

June 12, 1993 (age 33)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rooster

Origin

Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

179 cm

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Buso High School

University

Teikyo University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasutaka%20Shiomi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A1%A9%E8%A6%8B%E6%B3%B0%E9%9A%86
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55537902

Tags

• Kanagawa Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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