Manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo revealed Monday that the Nippon Ham Fighters are introducing an evaluation system at his request that will reward contributions to victories, Sports Hochi reported.
The Fighters have had a lot of well-pitched games where the starting pitcher lacked run support and was unable to get a win, and Shinjo wants his guys to be rewarded for that, and for, well, playing like Shinjo, who hit the ball hard, struck out a ton, rarely walked, and didn’t hit for average.
We had more than our share of interesting takes and rants from managers this week, and I’d thought I share some I collected for your entertainment.
Nippon Ham’s Tsuyoshi Shinjo did and said some weird things, while Yakult’s Shingo Takatsu can’t quite put his finger on what went obviously wrong one day. Giants skipper Tatsunori Hara, meanwhile, wants you to know he has a plan probably even more than he actually wants to have a plan, and Chunichi’s Kazuyoshi Tatsunami did some venting.
