Time To Start Writing Again

» 02 April 2013 » In npb draft »

Well, it’s been a while. Life has kept me hectically busy, but every once in a while I get the urge to express myself creatively by way of printed word again, so I’ve decided to attempt to begin again.

The change this time around is that what I post will probably be less straight translation of news events, and more commentary and writing writing. I hope I turn out to be good at it.

Here’s what I have in mind for the next couple months:

  • The influx of rookies into NPB and the true changing the guard it signifies.
  • Tomohiro Anraku and the cautionary tales of Koshiens passed.
  • How Nippon Ham persuaded Shohei Ohtani to remain in Japan and whether it will work or not.
  • How to become a consumer of Japanese baseball without speaking a word of Japanese.
  • The pending internationalization of NPB.
  • The Major League futures of Masahiro Tanaka and Yoshio Itoi.
  • More Yakyu Nihongo lessons.
  • Finally follow up on this post from 2009.
  • Some reflection on my baseball “expertise”.
  • Some reflection on my experience writing and developing a following.
  • (Baseball) stuff I find on various 2ch/matome sites, which I have become fascinated by.
  • How not to suck at programming. Or, at least, sucking less at programming.

We’ll see how it goes.

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  1. Patrick
    Rick in Philly
    03/04/2013 at 6:18 am Permalink

    Welcome back! Looking forward to reading.

  2. Patrick
    Michael Westbay
    03/04/2013 at 7:45 am Permalink

    Three cheers for the return of NPB Tracker. Hurrah, hurrah!

  3. Patrick
    Jason L.
    03/04/2013 at 12:19 pm Permalink

    Already something to write about – Near perfecto for Yu Darvish.

  4. Patrick
    Patrick
    04/04/2013 at 8:26 am Permalink

    That’s a great topic but unfortunately I only saw the highlights, so I don’t have much to say about it.

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    Kyle
    05/04/2013 at 1:34 am Permalink

    Out of curiosity, are you using pitch f/x for your advanced data on each pitcher or some sort of other method?

  6. Patrick
    Patrick
    07/04/2013 at 2:26 pm Permalink

    Definitely looking forward to:

    How to become a consumer of Japanese baseball without speaking a word of Japanese.

    More Yakyu Nihongo lessons.

    (Baseball) stuff I find on various 2ch/matome sites, which I have become fascinated by.

  7. Patrick
    Patrick
    07/04/2013 at 8:08 pm Permalink

    >>> Out of curiosity, are you using pitch f/x for your advanced data on each pitcher or some sort of other method?

    It’s data collected by stringers (I assume) for the NPB equivalent of GameDay.