Yūya Gunji

Gunji's resume reads like someone who kept choosing the harder route. A kid from Ichihara in Chiba who went all the way to Sendai Ikuei in Miyagi for high school, then on to Keio, then into NPB. What I like most is the position line: he is a catcher who also turns up at infield and outfield spots. Catching is already the most cognitively demanding job on the diamond, and adding "will play anywhere" on top of it marks a player who would rather be useful than comfortable. He moved from the Chunichi Dragons to the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, and players like that tend to improve a roster in ways box scores never capture. Born in 1997, he still has plenty of runway ahead of him.

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Name (English)

Yūya Gunji

Name (Japanese)

郡司裕也

Reading

ぐんじ ゆうや

Born

December 27, 1997 (age 28)

Origin

Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

High school

Sendai Ikuei Gakuen Senior High School

University

Keio University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/gunji__yuya/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABya%20Gunji
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%A1%E5%8F%B8%E8%A3%95%E4%B9%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79736387

Tags

• Chiba Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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