Now that preseason play has begun, you’re probably either spending your afternoons at Jingu or you’re wondering how the squad is shaping up. Newcomer Takahiro Araki, 23, has been the regular at short and looks pretty good in the field, although he seems to be swinging for the fences a bit much; Eulogio de la [...]
Former Swallows reliever Ryota Igarashi is in Port St. Lucie with the Mets, where he was interviewed for a piece about him in the New York Daily News yesterday.
Among the article’s gems:
During his 11-year career with the Yakult Swallows, Igarashi would wear a WWE-style mask and take on the persona of “Swallows Man.” A photo of him [...]
Click here for current NPB Standings – including both the Central League and Pacific League – as well as game-by-game results and the complete 2009 schedule for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, with links to the gameday reports, updated daily.
Individual Battings Stats current as of: October 12th & the end of the season
Individual Pitching Stats current as [...]
September 20th, 2009
Yomiuri Giants 8
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 2
Streak: Lost 3 Last 5: WWLLL
(Jingu Stadium)
Shock of shocks, the Birds dropped another one to their crosstown rivals – this one no prettier than the last two, thus giving up a sweep and making sure no one worries about their progress towards fifth place – a destination hampered [...]
July 12th, 2009
Yokohama BayStars 2
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 1
Streak: Lost 2 Last 5: WWWLL
(Meiji Jingu Stadium)
Yokohama’s role over the past couple of seasons has been to boost the win percentages of their opponents. Opponents other than Tokyo, of course, for whom the BayStars save their wins – seven of them to the Swallows’ two coming [...]
We here at the Tsubamegun are always trying to provide a more in-depth, more comprehensive picture of the Swallows. In line with this process, we are happy to announce that we’ve added information on that necessary evil, opponents.
You can now take a look at the “Other NPB Teams” page to see some basic info and [...]
Readers of the Tsubamegun, and there are more of you each day, will probably have noticed by now that our URL has now changed to tokyoswallows.com and that everything (we hope everything, we’re still double-checking) is redirecting there.
We hope this causes no inconvenience (the old URL will continue to redirect here) and that [...]
This has nothing to do with baseball. It does, however, have to do with Trans-Pacific Radio, which produces and distributes Messrs. Watkins and Pellegrini’s NPB on TPR pro yakyu podcasts and whose co-founder is the Tsubamegun’s Mr. DeOrio.
On Thursday, June 4th at 7:30 p.m., Garrett DeOrio and Ken Worsley will present and record a live [...]
New progress in the ever-evolving conundrum of making baseball statistics useful and meaningful.
Much progress has been made over the past couple of decades in separating the pitchers from the belly-itchers. Good old ERA will let you know one key thing: How many runs a pitcher has given up (and, hence, how many he is likely [...]
Yes, dear reader, this has nothing to do with the Tokyo Swallows, or with NPB at all, other than to demonstrate that there are brief moments when even our oft-frustrating club can appear well-managed. What you’re seeing is apparently real – the photo having been picked up around the mainstream sports media in the US. [...]
