Tatsuru Yanagimachi

Tatsuru Yanagimachi (柳町 達)

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 5' 10", Weight 165 lbs.

• School Keio University
• High School Keio High School

• Born April 20, 1997 in Inashiki, Ibaraki, Japan

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Biographical Information

Tatsuru Yanagimachi has played in Nippon Pro Baseball.

Yanagimachi represented Japan in the 2018 World University Baseball Championship, hitting .200/.467/.300 with 6 RBI in 6 games for the champs. He tied Kuan-Yu Shih and Daiki Kawai for 3rd in RBI. He was drafted by the Softbank Hawks in the 5th round of the 2019 NPB draft; the scout was Shogo Yamamoto. He spent his first two seasons primarily in the NPB Farm Leagues, and he only got 52 at-bats combined for the big club. He played 107 games with a .277/.357/.346 batting line in 2022, and he got 3 votes in the PL Rookie of the Year voting. Yanagimachi recorded a .257/.375/.322 batting line in 2023, and he crushed 4 homers with a .269/.313/.421 batting line in 2024. He was 0 for 4 in the 2024 Japan Series, when they fell to the Yokohama BayStars.