Yukinori Kishida

I've got a soft spot for catchers, and Yukinori Kishida is exactly the kind of unsung grinder I find myself rooting for. He came up out of Hyogo, sharpened at Houtoku Gakuen, a school that doesn't hand out easy reps, and at 176cm he's not towering by baseball standards, which somehow makes the squat-in-the-dirt persistence more compelling. The catcher's job is brutal and invisible: take a pitcher's heat all day, read the data, call the game, then go grab a clutch hit when your spot comes up. That's brains and body running at full tilt with almost none of the glory. Born in 1996, he's right in that prime-years window where craft and grit start paying off. He's not a flashy star, but he's the dependable backbone a clubhouse quietly leans on, and I respect that kind of player enormously.

Yukinori Kishida is a Japanese professional baseball player born on October 10, 1996, in Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture. He attended Hototoku Gakuen High School, a school with a strong baseball tradition in Hyogo. Standing 176 cm tall, he plays as a catcher, a demanding position requiring both physical endurance and strategic acumen. Details about his agency and career timeline remain private.

Name (English)

Yukinori Kishida

Name (Japanese)

岸田行倫

Reading

きしだ ゆきのり

Born

October 10, 1996 (age 29)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rat (子)

Origin

Kawanishi, Hyogo, Japan

Height

176cm

Occupation

Baseball Player

High school

Hototoku Gakuen High School

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%B8%E7%94%B0%E8%A1%8C%E5%80%AB

Tags

• From Hyogo Prefecture
• Baseball Player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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