Yuito Mori

Yuito Mori pitched in Nippon Professional Baseball from 2014 to 2025, for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and then the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, and retired after twelve seasons. At 176 cm he was never going to overpower anyone on physical presence alone, which makes the length of that run the interesting number. I have a soft spot for relief pitchers, and Mori's career is a good argument for why. A starter gets to build a story from the first inning. A reliever is dropped into someone else's mess, often with the game already tilting, and is judged almost entirely on the moments that go wrong. Save it and the box score barely notices. Blow it and the whole night is yours to own. Doing that job for over a decade, across two organizations, requires a temperament most fans never see and rarely credit. His record here is thin on awards and honors, but longevity in that role is its own citation. The people who remember his name tend to be the ones actually watching the seventh and eighth innings.

Name (English)

Yuito Mori

Name (Japanese)

森唯斗

Reading

もり ゆいと

Born

January 8, 1992 (age 34)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

Height

176 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuito%20Mori
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E5%94%AF%E6%96%97
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17219970

Tags

• baseball player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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