Filling up with the ‘Gasoline Tank’
Testuya Yoneda, one of Nippon Professional Baseball's pitching marvels from back in the day, spoke in an interview with the Nikkan Sports. The 81-year-old, who won 350 games in a…
Dayan Viciedo and the zone
My buddy John Gibson interviewed Dayan Viciedo of the Chunichi Dragons last week, which you can hear on the Japan Baseball Weekly Podcast. In the interview, Viciedo, last year's CL…
2019 All Star Teams
Fan ballot Here are the fan ballots for the upcoming NPB all-star games (published on June 24) Central League ★Selected in this ballot / selections by fans （total selections) …
NPB games, news of June 26, 2019
News Giants return Yoshikawa to Fighters in 4-way deal No games today, I'm afraid, but left-hander Mitsuo Yoshikawa, the Pacific League's 2012 MVP returns to the Fighters as part of…
NPB games, news of June 25, 2019
And NPB interleague is a wrap for 2019 with Allen Kuri throwing his first career shutout as the Carp, with this year's worst interleague record (5-12-1) head back into action…
Spelling relief
On this week's Japan Baseball Weekly Podcast, John and I talked about how well Japan's different relief corps have done, starting with the Yomiuri Giants, who have been without Scott…
NPB games, news of June 23, 2019
If I could have put a bet down on Sunday's game between the SoftBank Hawks and Yomiuri Giants, I would happily have plunked down 1,000 yen to have Tomoyuki Sugano…
NPB games, news of June 22, 2019
The Pacific League won the most interleague games for the 10th straight year after splitting Saturday's six NPB games, although the Hawks' loss to the Giants left the overall title…
Giants, de la Rosa agree to terms
The Yomiuri Giants announced Saturday that they have agreed to contract terms with 30-year-old right-hander Rubby de la Rosa. De la Rosa last played in the majors in 2017 and…
NPB games, news of June 21, 2019
The SoftBank Hawks moved to within one win of the team's eighth interleague championship with a come-from-behind win over the Yomiuri Giants, who dropped a game back in the chase…
