Yūma Mune

Yuma Mune, born in 1996 in Musashino, Tokyo, is an infielder for the Orix Buffaloes, listed at 181 cm and a graduate of Yokohama Hayato High School. Infield defense is the least glamorous job on a baseball field and quietly one of the most consequential. Home runs get replayed; a clean throw from third that nobody notices is the reason an inning ended. That work rarely shows up in the numbers casual fans quote, yet it decides games, and building a reputation from it takes years of consistency rather than one loud season. Mune's father is Guinean, and his presence is part of a slow shift in the demographic picture of Nippon Professional Baseball. I mention it not because it explains anything about how he plays, but because it is worth noticing how ordinary that has become. The question a fan asks about him is whether he can handle the ball hit down the line. That is the right question, and it is the only one.

Name (English)

Yūma Mune

Name (Japanese)

宗佑磨

Reading

むね ゆうま

Born

June 7, 1996 (age 30)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rat

Origin

Musashino, Tokyo, Japan

Height

181 cm

Occupation

baseball player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuma%20Mune
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%97%E4%BD%91%E7%A3%A8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18818206

Tags

• Tokyo
• 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.