Yūta Shirahama

Yūta Shirahama caught for Koryo High School when it won the spring national tournament, then spent eighteen years with the Hiroshima Carp. A guy out of Sakai in Osaka, born Halloween 1985, standing a solid 180cm, who built a life chasing a baseball around dusty diamonds. That's the stuff I get sentimental about. I don't think this is a man whose worth lives in anecdotes. It lives in showing up, in reps, in the long unglamorous middle of a career. I respect that more than fireworks, honestly.

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Yūta Shirahama is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher born on October 31, 1985, in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. He stands 180 cm tall. He won the spring national high school tournament with Koryo High School and played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp from 2004 to 2022.

Name (English)

Yūta Shirahama

Name (Japanese)

白濱裕太

Reading

しらはま ゆうた

Born

October 31, 1985 (age 40)

Origin

Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

180cm

Occupation

Baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Ox

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%99%BD%E6%BF%B1%E8%A3%95%E5%A4%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11580059

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Baseball player

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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