On the 13th, Orix Buffaloes announced that they have acquired Sean Hjelle (28), a 213cm tall right-handed pitcher from the Giants as a new foreign player. In NPB history, the tallest player was Rakuten Eagles 's Van Mil (2014), who was 216cm. Jerry will surpass the 201cm heights of Schultz (2013) and Moya (2019-2021) within the team's history.

The tallest athletes in major sports

▼Soccer: Russian Pavel Podkolzin, a former NBA player, is 226 cm tall. He played in the Cup of Russia last August as a member of Russia's Amkar Moscow. In the J.League, forward Makito Hatanaka, who played for J3 Tottori from 2015 to 2018, is 205 cm tall.

▼Sumo Among the sekitori since the Showa era, former sekiwake Fudoiwa is 214 cm tall.

▼NBA Gheorghe Muresan, a Romanian who joined the Washington Bullets in the 1993 draft, and Manute Bol, who played for the Washington Bullets and Miami Heat in the 1980s and 1990s, are both 231 cm tall.

*Major players are from Baseball Reference. Final affiliation is in parentheses, and Fudoiwa is the highest ranked player.