On September 13, 2015, the Central League achieved symmetry. Yomiuri beat DeNA 3-0, Chunichi tied Yakult 2-2, and Hanshin lost to Hiroshima 0-3. This is something of a microcosm of how the Centra...
Last week, Ichiro reached perhaps the capstone achievement of his career: 4000 career hits as a professional in NPB and MLB. This put me in kind of a refelective mood, as Ichiro has been an omnip...
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Coming: Hayata Itoh (1st round draft pick), Shingo Matsuzaki, manager Yutaka Wada Going: Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi, Kodai Sakurai, Ikuro Katsuragi, Keiji Uezono, manager Akinobu Mayumi Staying: Matt M...
With spring training a mere two weeks away, NPB teams are largely done making offseason roster moves. But Buster Olney’s observation that there are a number of established MLB players that are ...
It’s time once again for my mid-season look at the crop of NPB players who will be available on the MLB hot stove market this upcoming offseason. I do these in the middle of the season so we ha...
Summary: Hanshin defeated Yomiuri 2-1, but Michihiro Ogasawara reached his milestone. This game had quite a few juicy storylines coming in. The Giants’ rookie Hirokazu Sawamura made his Toky...
The NPB season is finally upon us. On Monday evening (Pacific Time) I found about 90 minutes to spend watching two games, and talking baseball on Twitter. Here are my notes from what I saw of the...
NPB spring camps have opened throughout southern Japan, and here are six pictures from around the league, pre-approved to be interesting by me. Lotte outfielder Ikohiro Kiyota, taking part in a k...
Coming: Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Akihito Fujii, Ryota Arai, Robert Zarate, Marcos Vechionacci Going: Casey Fossum, Akihiro Yano, Satoru Kanemura, Daiyu Kanemura, Keisuke Mizuta Staying: Matt Murton, C...
2010 was an eventful year for Nippon Pro Yakyu. Today we look back at some of the notable stories from the year that was. Murton Hits The story of individual accomplishment in 2010 easily went to...