Yoshihisa Naruse

Yoshihisa Naruse was born in 1985 in Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, and reached Japan's top professional league in 2006. By 2007, still very young, he had already put together what was arguably the standout season of his career. There is a particular burden that comes with peaking early. Every year afterward gets measured against a version of yourself that existed when you were barely into your twenties, and the measuring is done in public, by people who were not there. At 180 centimeters, he was never going to be the kind of pitcher who simply overpowers a lineup forever, so the interesting part of his story is not the brilliant early season but the years that followed it, spent refining command and sequencing rather than chasing lost velocity. He continued in Nippon Professional Baseball across more than one organization. Staying employable in that league for a long stretch is a quieter achievement than a breakout year, and I would argue a harder one.

Name (English)

Yoshihisa Naruse

Name (Japanese)

成瀬善久

Reading

なるせ よしひさ

Born

October 13, 1985 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

Origin

Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan

Height

180 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihisa%20Naruse
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%88%90%E7%80%AC%E5%96%84%E4%B9%85
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q484613

Tags

• Tochigi Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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