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 [...]
July 18th, 2008 Hiroshima Toyo Carp 3 Tokyo Yakult Swallows 8 Streak: Won 2. Last 5: WWLWW (Meiji Jingu Stadium) Like last night, this was another weird one. Hiroshima did everything they could to give Tokyo the win in the end. To Tokyo’s credit, Tanaka had a good game with three hits and one rbi. [...]
