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There’s plenty of excellent English-language content being authored on Japanese and Asian baseball. Here are links to a few examples. Wayne Graczyk of the Japan Times discuss’s the Central Le...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2012/02/npb-in-english-policy-shifts-player-movements-kbo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=npb-in-english-policy-shifts-player-movements-kbo

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. So long, in fact, that the draft post had some links from July in it. Between when I started this and now, some interesting random things have ...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2011/09/npb-bullet-points-catching-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=npb-bullet-points-catching-up

When I started this site in 2008, there were some good English language sources of information on Japanese baseball, but I (obviously) didn’t feel there were enough. Thankfully, there are a few...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2010/03/the-english-npb-blogosphere-2010-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-english-npb-blogosphere-2010-edition

Ryan Sadowski has found his way to Asia. The former SF Giant has signed a deal to pitch for the Lotte Giants in 2010. You might recall that the Yokohama BayStars tried to get Sadowski during the ...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2009/12/sadowski-to-korea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sadowski-to-korea

If you missed the NPB-KBO Club Championship, you can watched a Korean broadcast archived on justin.tv here: http://www.justin.tv/wkwlxjf#from-21.00,November-13-2009. If you don’t see any video,...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2009/11/npb-kbo-club-championship-notes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=npb-kbo-club-championship-notes

Japan’s answer to the Arizona Fall League is the Miyazaki Phoenix League, a 17-day long instructional league held in southern Japan. However unlike the AFL, the Phoenix League is not only a pla...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2009/10/japans-answer-to-the-arizona-fall-league/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japans-answer-to-the-arizona-fall-league

Starting from 2005, the Asia Series was once thought to be the next big tournament in Asian baseball. However after four years, the tournament was unable to catch sponsor’s interest and with fi...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2009/09/japan-korea-club-championship/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japan-korea-club-championship

Japanese Stories: Craig Brazell commemorated the birth of his son, Trot, with two home runs in Hanshin’s 9-3 win over Yokohama. Congratulations to the Brazell family! Lotte reportedly has some ...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2009/08/npb-bullet-points-brazell-becomes-a-dad-kbo-offers-for-bobby/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=npb-bullet-points-brazell-becomes-a-dad-kbo-offers-for-bobby

Japanese: Kazuhiro Kiyohara made his first appearance in a Seibu uniform in a while, swinging through the ceremonial first pitch on August 22.I’m not sure what Kiyohara’s been up to since ret...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2009/08/npb-bullet-points-kiyohara-makes-an-appearance-hanshin-looks-to-korea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=npb-bullet-points-kiyohara-makes-an-appearance-hanshin-looks-to-korea

Sponichi is reporting that Ken Kadokura is heading to Korea to sign a deal with the SK Wyverns. The Wyverns were the first team to make Kadokura an offer after he was released by Yomiuri, but ...

http://www.npbtracker.com/2009/04/kadokura-heading-to-korea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kadokura-heading-to-korea