NPB Tracker » Yu Darvish

…a later article appears. The delving begins. The glass is half empty: only 91 NPB players earn JPY 100m ($1m) or more per year, a relative paucity compared to their Major League counterparts. ...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2014/05/why-dont-npb-players-make-more-money/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-dont-npb-players-make-more-money

This is part five in a multi-part series. Previous entries: English-language news sources and blogs on Japanese baseball English-language online Pro Yakyu communities Watching Pro Yakyu games onl...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2014/04/following-japanese-baseball-part-5-japanese-language/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=following-japanese-baseball-part-5-japanese-language

In recent weeks, I’ve written about some of the better MLB prospects who are currently active in Japan, and looked back at some of skills that have translated well from NPB to MLB. Now we’...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2014/02/maeda-through-the-lens-of-his-predecessors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maeda-through-the-lens-of-his-predecessors

I’ve been thinking a lot about Masahiro Tanaka and how he might perform in year one of his newly-minted mega deal. My theory is that observable skills are a better predictor of MLB success than...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2014/02/starting-pitcher-skills/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=starting-pitcher-skills

Every time an NPB pitcher transitions to MLB, we see a number of projectsions for he might perform statistically. For me these projections are always a bit of a shot in the dark — there is just...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2013/12/pitching-here-there-everywhere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pitching-here-there-everywhere

This offseason, I’ve come across three proposals to change the rules governing player personnel. At first glance, it didn’t seem that these ideas are thematically linked, but after giving it ...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2012/12/looking-at-player-movement-rules/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looking-at-player-movement-rules

Okay, so the cat is out of the bag about high school pitching prospect Shohei Otani. Here’s everything I know about him. I first found out about Otani about a year ago, when Yakyu Kozoh had ...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2012/10/who-is-shohei-otani/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-is-shohei-otani

While my baseball consumption has not returned to it’s previous levels, my itch to write has returned, so tonight I’m taking a hiatus from my hiatus to share a few thoughts on the season so f...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2012/08/a-midsummer-nights-blog-post/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-midsummer-nights-blog-post

For the third consecutive year, my friends at Rotowire invited me to contribute to their annual Fantasy Baseball Guide. Given my schedule constraints over the offseason, my Rotowire article wound...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2012/03/a-brief-commercial-break/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-brief-commercial-break

Time for a little scrutiny. Following his spring debut, Yu Darvish made the following comment about the double he surrendered to Padres outfielder Will Venable: 　－－二回�...

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