Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

A day after being  brushed aside so easily by Korea, Japan had to pick themselves up to face the Cubans for the second time in four days. This time however, there were no second chances, the loser would be heading home.
Japan rode to victory three days earlier on the back of six innings of five hit ball [...]

With the pre-season schedule now underway, I thought we’d take a look at the results of this year’s salary negotiations and see who’s getting paid what in Tokyo this year (note: all salary figures are given in multiples of a million yen, eg ¥40M = ¥40,000,000):   
 
The Big Boys
 
Norichika Aoki – The main man around [...]

Trans-Pacific Radio just published a
podcast which reviews the 2008 baseball
season all the way through the Japan Series which was eventually won by the Saitama Seibu Lions.
Click here to listen to the podcast.

September 2nd, 2008

Chunichi Dragons 6

Tokyo Yakult Swallows 12

Streak: Won 3 Last 5:LLWWW
(Jingu Stadium)
Dicky Gonzalez got his first win of the season on seven innings of work, and for the second night in the row the Tokyo starter enjoyed some other-worldly run support from his teammates.

A brief article on the Washington University in Saint Louis website discusses how left-handed pitchers and hitters have a distinct advantage in the game of baseball.
This is probably not surprising news to most readers of this site, but the math has been done, and despite roughly 90% of the adult population being right-handed, about 25% [...]