An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
Tokyo Swallows fans witnessed it all in 2010: the resumption of the 2009 slump which ended up consuming the first two months of 2010; a change in manager; the addition of a cleanup bat; veteran pitchers refinding their form; an authoritative return to winning; and a bit of flirtation with the third and final playoff spot. With any luck, 2011 [...]
Happy Thanksgiving, American Tsubamegun-ites. We bitch a bit round these parts, and I am personally to blame for much of that. I can find the cloud around any silver lining, blow it out of proportion, and try people’s patience bitching about it, although I swear that’s only for matters pertaining to the diamond (or diamonds, [...]
Dear Tokyo Swallows fan, We’ve just started redoing the site. It’s the off-season, so we figured that we could get away with it. And hey, the sooner, the better, right? The result is likely going to look very similar to the spring 2010 iteration, so hopefully there will be very little interruption in services. But [...]
Gen over at Yakyu Baka has put together a phenomenal, stats-laden post that compares the 2009 and 2010 production of Tokyo’s cleanup–Aoki, D’Antona, and Guiel. The results don’t exactly jive with what the team and the media are saying about these guys. Most Japanese baseball aficionados won’t find it surprising that D’Antona and Guiel particularly [...]
The Japan Times‘s Jason Coskrey sounds off in the mainstream press on the futility of allowing Tokyo’s manager, Shigeru Takada, to keep his job until the end of the season. Valid points abound in the article, all of which are in lockstep with what has been uttered on this website and elsewhere. Here’s one choice [...]
Howdy Tsubamegun readers! My name is Kozo Ota, and I was recently asked to become a contributor to this fine site. I hope to contribute posts that provide further information about the team, and about Japanese baseball. But I thought my first post should be about myself to lay out my bona fides, and to tell my story about how I came to be a Swallows fan.
