Yutaro Itayama

Yutaro Itayama, born 1994 in Yokohama, plays both outfield and infield for the Chunichi Dragons — and that detail is the whole story of a certain kind of professional career. Positional flexibility is enormously valuable to a manager. A player who can cover several spots lets you make late-inning substitutions freely and absorbs an injury without wrecking the lineup. But the same trait cuts the other way for the player himself. The versatile man rarely gets handed a position and told it is his; he is the solution to whatever problem the roster has this week, which means his playing time is decided by other people's circumstances as much as his own form. That takes a particular temperament — the ability to stay sharp at several skills while never being allowed to fully settle into one. These players almost never lead a statistical category, and teams that lack one feel the absence within a month.

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Name (English)

Yutaro Itayama

Name (Japanese)

板山祐太郎

Reading

いたやま ゆうたろう

Born

March 27, 1994 (age 32)

Origin

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

180 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dog

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutaro%20Itayama
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BF%E5%B1%B1%E7%A5%90%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22117887

Tags

• Kanagawa Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

September 29, 2026

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