Hiro Tanaka

Background

Japanese-American and LA born, Hiro played basketball through high school with dreams of walking on somewhere—he was good, just not quite good enough. Rather than give up on the sport entirely, he channeled his passion into physical therapy, working toward his doctorate while helping athletes recover.

His PT background gives him unique insight into injury recovery timelines that fantasy players desperately need. When a star goes down, Hiro's DMs blow up with people asking for his honest assessment. He got into fantasy to scratch his competitive itch after his playing days ended.

Writing Style

Patient and analytical, Hiro is the calm presence who balances out the hotter takes from his colleagues. He's sometimes too optimistic about injured players' returns—an occupational hazard of working in recovery—but his detailed injury analysis articles are consistently the most popular content on the site.