An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
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 [...]
October 12th, 2008 Yokohama BayStars 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Streak: Won 1 Last 5: WWLLW (Jingu Stadium) The special thing about tonight was that several of our veterans were being treated to their sayonara game. Manaka (OF), Ono (C), Kawabata (P) and Watarai (IF) are all former Tokyo players as of next year.
July 28th, 2008 Hanshin Tigers 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4 Streak: Won 1. Last 5: LLLLW (Jingu Stadium) From July 11th to the 22nd, Tokyo went 8-2-1. Then they dropped four straight. For whatever reason, we can’t seem to handle our biggest rival, Yomiuri, or our neighbors, Yokohama (yes, the same Yokohama that is at [...]
“A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings” (former MLB pitcher, Earl Wilson). That’s for damn sure. And the heart attack-inducing portion of the roster has tended to be the bullpen over the past five years. I have always been “interested” to see if our relievers could hold on to the [...]
