Yuya Yanagi

Born in Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Yuya Yanagi pitched at Yokohama High School, then captained Meiji University to the 2016 Meiji Jingu Tournament title before joining the Chunichi Dragons. The resume reads like a serious, unglamorous man, and that is roughly how he pitches. What strikes me every season is the distance between how he throws and what the record says. Support has often been thin, so strong outings turn into losses and his win-loss line misrepresents the innings behind it. Pitcher wins were never one man's statistic, yet that is what the public judges him by. He keeps taking the ball near the front of the rotation anyway.

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Name (English)

Yuya Yanagi

Name (Japanese)

柳裕也

Reading

やなぎ ゆうや

Born

April 22, 1994 (age 32)

Origin

Miyakonojō, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan

Height

180 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dog

University

Meiji University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yuya.yanagi/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABya%20Yanagi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%B3%E8%A3%95%E4%B9%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27979490

Tags

• Miyazaki Prefecture
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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