# Shun Yamaguchi

> A pitcher who carved a decade in Japan's top leagues before becoming the first Japanese player to debut directly with the Toronto Blue Jays - no minor league stops, no prior MLB team, just a straight line from Yokohama to Toronto.

*Japanese baseball player*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/shun-yamaguchi

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Athlete ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131))
- **Category:** Athletes
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1987
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born July 11, 1987, Yamaguchi spent his entire NPB career between two clubs: the Yokohama BayStars (later rebranded DeNA BayStars) and the Yomiuri Giants. When he finally crossed the Pacific, he made history twice over - the Blue Jays' first Japanese debutant, and the first MLB player from Japan who had never thrown a pitch for any American organization before his big league call. Every Japanese player Toronto had rostered before him had come via another MLB team; Yamaguchi arrived alone, on his own terms, from the other side of the world.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 59.7
- **Momentum:** 21.5
- **Total followers across platforms:** 10,500

## Platforms
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/shun_yamaguchi11/ (@shun_yamaguchi11)
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOz4SpAaUJv_v0ha2AEb_iQ (@@ymn-shunchan, 10,500 followers)

## Sources
- [شون ياماجوكى](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%83%D9%89)
- [Shun Yamaguchi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shun_Yamaguchi)
- [山口俊](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%8F%A3%E4%BF%8A)
- [야마구치 슌](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%BC%EB%A7%88%EA%B5%AC%EC%B9%98_%EC%8A%8C)
- [山口俊](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%8F%A3%E4%BF%8A)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5366727)

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