# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daisuke-matsuzaka
# Generated: 2026-09-06T20:05:46.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daisuke-matsuzaka"
name: "Daisuke Matsuzaka"
slug: "daisuke-matsuzaka"
description: "Daisuke Matsuzaka   is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher, who pitched professionally for 23 seasons, 16 of them in NPB, 7 in MLB. He is currently a baseball color commentator, critic, reporter, and YouTuber. Daisuke is nicknamed \"the Monster of the Heisei Era\"  in Japan and \"Dice-K\" in the United States by The Boston Globe and USA Today. He played for the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Saitama Seibu Lions, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)."
tagline: "Japanese professional baseball player, Major League Baseball player, baseball critic, baseball commentator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WBC2006_Daisuke_Matsuzaka.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1980-09-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           78.5
  momentum:             15.83033003114851
  historical:           22.597084
  currentAttention:     25.98692038172135
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  36
  category: null
totalFollowers: 266000
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/matsu_dice"
    handle:    "matsu_dice"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://daisukematsuzaka18.jp/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynRI0Q6qUTGgzeRS8SiqGw"
    handle:    "@daisukematsuzaka18"
    followers: 266000
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    title: "دايسوك ماتسوزاكا"
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    title: "Daisuke Matsuzaka"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Matsuzaka"
    title: "Daisuke Matsuzaka"
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    title: "Daisuke Matsuzaka"
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    title: "Matsuzaka Daisuke"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump