…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. ...
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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This feels like the type of content more appropriately proffered on NotGraphs, but here we are. I was browsing a recent discovery, one of those 2ch-style blogs called Nannjoy, when I came a...
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...
Last week, I got a pretty good question Twitter — who would my Japanese national team be today? It’s a good question, and a nice change of pace from the Darvish questions I frequently get, so...
Okay, time to hit the “play” button again. Here’s a recap of many of the notable events that happened while I was away. SoftBank took the Pacific League title despite ultimately winning two...
(insert witty introduction here) Around NPB Chihiro Kaneko has gotten himself in to the mix for the Pacific League’s wins title, with a career-best personal 10-game winning streak. Kaneko is no...
I’ve spent most of my writing time this week over at FanGraphs, profiling some of Japan’s better players. In researching that set of articles, I came across this post I wrote in early 2009, b...
This video is seven seconds long. It’s worth spending seven seconds on. The pitcher? The now forgotten Toshiyuki Gotoh.
This is one of my favorite all-time NPB Tracker posts, and one that generated a good amount of interest in the site. I decided to re-run because seeing the various pitching styles is one of my fa...