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As a 6 year old, playing catch with an Akinobu Okada signed ball was his inspiration to start playing baseball where he played for Edogawa South Little Seniors. At Shutoku High School, he played mostly as a pitcher with time spent at short stop where he was the ace and batted 4th. In summer of his junior year he reached the best 8 of the Tokyo tournament while in spring of his senior year he reached the Tokyo tournament semi-finals where he also hit a homerun in the second game against Meisei High School. In summer of his senior year he showed great poise in pitching against Kanto Daiichi High School in the tournament final. He also hit a come from behind RBI in the 7th inning. In the 8th inning however due to leg discomfort, he came off the mound where his team went down in a walkoff loss, missing his chance at reaching the Japanese High School Baseball Championship. He hit a total of 18 homeruns in his high school career.

In his first year with the Buffloes, Mitsumata played in 103 Western League games with a .225 average where he led the league in errors. He also appeared in the 2011 Fresh All Stars Game.

On 28 October 2010, Mitsumata was selected as the 2nd draft pick for the Orix Buffaloes at the 2010 NPB Draft and on 21 November signed a provisional contract with a ¥60,000,000 sign-on bonus and a ¥6,000,000 yearly salary.

Taiki Mitsumata (三ツ俣 大樹 , Mitusmata Taiki, born May 11, 1992 in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Mitsumata once again played the majority of games on the farm playing in 86 games and hitting .220. On August 7, he was brought up to the first team for the first time and made his debut on the following day. On the 14th of the same month, he was removed from the first team but was re-added in September where on the 22nd in a game against the Chiba Lotte Marines he hit his first professional hit against Takahiro Fujioka in what would turn out to be a multi-hit game. He then hit in 4 consecutive games. He ended the season having played 9 games batting .238.