Yū Takeda

Riseisha High School, then Meiji University. If you follow Japanese baseball at all, that pairing tells you something before you read another line. Riseisha is one of the country's genuine powerhouse high school programs, and Meiji sits in the Tokyo Big6, the most-watched university league in Japan. Surviving both means being sorted, repeatedly, into the small group that keeps going. Takeda was born in 1999 in Daito, Osaka, and stands 184 cm. Beyond that, I do not have much, and I would rather say so than invent a highlight reel. What interests me is the shape of the record rather than its contents: a player still early enough that the interesting parts have not happened yet. I have watched enough careers to know the pipeline guarantees nothing, and that is precisely why I would keep the name somewhere retrievable. Some pages are worth revisiting in five years to see how wrong you were.

Name (English)

Yū Takeda

Name (Japanese)

竹田祐

Reading

たけだ ゆう

Born

July 5, 1999 (age 27)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

Origin

Daitō-shi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

184 cm

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Riseisha High School

University

Meiji University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yu_takeda__/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%AB%B9%E7%94%B0%E7%A5%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130726885

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• baseball player

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.