Comments on: WBC: Japan 9, USA 4 http://tokyoswallows.com/2009/03/23/wbc-japan-9-usa-4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wbc-japan-9-usa-4 An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball Tue, 22 May 2012 09:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: gshocker http://tokyoswallows.com/2009/03/23/wbc-japan-9-usa-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1036 gshocker Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:39:44 +0000 http://tokyoyakultswallows.wordpress.com/?p=2135#comment-1036 It was quite a game. I am not sure the US commentators could decide if the US was fielding a good team or not. They kind of flip flopped depending on who was in the lead. Darvish looked good coming in to finish off the game. I would guess many scouts are focused on him now but I heard that he was happy to stay in Japan. Will be interesting to see if he really means that when the thought of BIG MLB dollars come knocking. Should be a great game this evening. Wonder how many in the US will be watching this one. Dreams for the future - Red Sox pickup Darvish and Aoki.. :-) It was quite a game. I am not sure the US commentators could decide if the US was fielding a good team or not. They kind of flip flopped depending on who was in the lead.

Darvish looked good coming in to finish off the game. I would guess many scouts are focused on him now but I heard that he was happy to stay in Japan. Will be interesting to see if he really means that when the thought of BIG MLB dollars come knocking.

Should be a great game this evening. Wonder how many in the US will be watching this one.

Dreams for the future – Red Sox pickup Darvish and Aoki.. :-)

]]> By: Kenzo http://tokyoswallows.com/2009/03/23/wbc-japan-9-usa-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1035 Kenzo Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:21:41 +0000 http://tokyoyakultswallows.wordpress.com/?p=2135#comment-1035 Pretty much the result we expected, though a sloppier game from the US than I thought we'd see. Dice K is still coming off the rubber weird during his early pitches from the windup. When he gets to the stretch it looks ok, but there's something odd about his footwork in his early pitches. I saw this in the first Korea game as well. I'm sure Theo, Francona and Farrell have been thinking about this more than I have. One thing is for sure: Yu Darvish went from being on the radar to being easily worth $15 million a year in the bigs. Any scout who was on the fence about him before today isn't any more. Does he look like a young right handed Sandy Koufax or does he look like a young right handed Sandy Koufax? Nakajima has shown that he can start on any MLB team. I want him too. Totally unrelated: Goodbye Curt Schilling. Too bad his blog can't handle all the extra traffic. Schilling vs. Ichiro in 1998: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yg8-XIpBtU Pretty much the result we expected, though a sloppier game from the US than I thought we’d see.

Dice K is still coming off the rubber weird during his early pitches from the windup. When he gets to the stretch it looks ok, but there’s something odd about his footwork in his early pitches. I saw this in the first Korea game as well. I’m sure Theo, Francona and Farrell have been thinking about this more than I have.

One thing is for sure: Yu Darvish went from being on the radar to being easily worth $15 million a year in the bigs. Any scout who was on the fence about him before today isn’t any more. Does he look like a young right handed Sandy Koufax or does he look like a young right handed Sandy Koufax?

Nakajima has shown that he can start on any MLB team. I want him too.

Totally unrelated: Goodbye Curt Schilling. Too bad his blog can’t handle all the extra traffic.

Schilling vs. Ichiro in 1998:

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