Baseball in Japan & Around the World
Coming: Felix Carrasco, Joel Guzman, Takahiro Saeki, Tatsuo Kinoshita, Keisuke Mizuta Going: Edward Valdez, Dionys Cesar, Ryota Arai Staying: Wei-Yin Chen, Maximo Nelson, Kazuhiro Wada Summary: When something works, stick with it. Though they did capture the Central League flag last season, Chunichi had the weakest offense in the league save for the BayStars. Let’s […]
best pic of the Japan Series: http://bit.ly/aogobZ # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07: Lotte takes a 2-1 lead: http://www.npbtracker.com/data/ # Agent Don Nomur… http://bit.ly/d7GjXq # Sanspo puts Anaheim in the mix for Hisanori Takahashi http://bit.ly/a7JaOT # Also, Sanspo says Tak2 is looking for multi years at $4-6m. NYM offered one year at $1.5m plus bonuses. […]
Edit: The game was in Nagoya. I must have been worn out when I wrote this. In my grand tradition of starting a post and then taking forever to finish it, I’m wrapping this up in just the nick of time. So this year’s Nippon Series opens later today (JST) in Nagoya Chiba, weather permitting. […]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-0… http://bit.ly/cUOxrG # Great piece about the inequities of baseball http://bit.ly/d1nNAx # List of FanGraphs Authors: http://twitter.com/#/list/npbtracker/fangraphs # Bullet Points: Last Week’s Pitching: I had a nice set of links built up, but it looks like most of them got lost […]
Brett Harper has gotten off to quite a start in Japan. Though he’s cooled off a little bit (3 for his last 23, with 8 K’s), through 33 games and 137 plate appearances he’s sporting a 1.077 OPS and 11 home runs. Harper racked up those 11 homers quickly, in his first 100 or so […]
Only the most eagle-eyed readers will notice this, but I just updated the navigation bar, retiring last year’s free agents page, and replacing it with (surprise) an updated page for this season. This year I’m going to start with a small list of players, and build it up over time. Here’s what I have so […]
updated: October 30 International Free Agents Hiro Kobayashi (RHP, Chiba Lotte Marines, Data): Kobayashi had a lengthy career as an underrated starter before moving to the bullpen in 2010, where he has been very effective. Kobayashi doesn’t have a power arm, but attacks the strike zone. Chang Yong Lim (RHP, Yakult Swallows, Data): Certainly the […]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20: Matt Murton takes the Central League lead in hits with 88! # Twitter Weekly… http://bit.ly/9NerJY # Fmr Yokozuna Akebono throws out the first pitch at a Rakuten game: http://bit.ly/bCOukY # minor update to npb tracker data: http://npbtracker.com/data/ # RT @laughingsquid Original 1979 Pac-Man Drawings by Toru Iwatani http://bit.ly/9hll6V # fixed […]
Last week, after Jorge Arangure broke the news that Dominican prospect Rafael DePaula’s MLB signing ban had been lifted, I exchanged a few “tweets” with Jorge and Keith Law, centered around my post about DePaula’s consideration of Japan last summer. Sometimes 140 characters isn’t enough. @keithlaw: @npbtracker I’m not sure why no suspended player has […]
The 2009 season concluded with Hideaki Wakui of the Seibu Lions being honored with the Sawamura Award, but a number of pitchers had outstanding years and we wanted to take a closer look at them. Sawamura Award candidate are judged on how close they get to the following seven criteria: Game Appearances… 25 or above […]