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NPB wrap 4-12-21

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Starting pitchers

Kishi, Morishita, Ono on tap

Rakuten Eagles right-handed Takayuki Kishi was named to his regular Tuesday start against the Marines in Sendai, against Ayumu Ishikawa, who will make his season debut.

The big Central League will be Yuki Nishi of the Tigers at home at Koshien Stadium against 2020 rookie of the year Masato Morishita of the Hiroshima Carp.

Chunichi Dragons Sawamura Award winner Yudai Ono, who has so far last the consistent elite command he displayed after his first few starts in 2020, will pitch against the Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo Dome.

Pacific League

Eagles vs Marines: Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi 6 pm, 5 am EDT

Takayuki Kishi (2-0, 1.20) vs Ayumu Ishikawa (-)

Lions vs Fighters: MetLife Dome 5:45 pm, 4:45 am EDT

Wataru Matsumoto (1-1, 5.00) vs Takahide Ikeda (0-2, 5.91)

Hawks vs Buffaloes: PayPay Dome 6 pm, 5 am EDT

Shunsuke Kasaya (1-0, 2.61) vs Daiki Tajima (0-1, 3.46)

Central League

Giants vs Dragons: Tokyo Dome 5:45 pm, 4:45 am EDT

Angel Sanchez (0-1, 6.00) vs Yudai Ono (0-1, 4.85)

Swallows vs BayStars: Jingu Stadium 5:30 pm, 4:30 am EDT

Albert Suarez (0-1, 3.60) vs Shinichi Onuki (1-0, 2.84)

Tigers vs Carp: Koshien Stadium 6 pm, 5 am EDT

Yuki Nishi (1-1, 1.93) vs Masato Morishita (2-0, 0.00)

Active roster moves 4/12/2021

Deactivated players can be re-activated from 4/22

Central League

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Dectivated

GiantsP35Toshiki Sakurai
GiantsIF52Takumi Kitamura
DragonsP21Toshiya Okada
DragonsOF60Yuki Okabayashi
BayStarsP53Sota Ikeya
BayStarsOF52Seiya Hosokawa
CarpP19Yusuke Nomura

Pacific League

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MarinesP60Rikuto Yokoyama
FightersC30Shingo Usami
FightersIF24Yuki Nomura
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NPB wrap 3-29-21

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Welcome emergency workers

I mentioned this in today’s newsletter, which is only available to free and paid subscribers and people who sign up for it using the form at the bottom of this post, but for a week now, non-resident pro baseball and soccer players and coaches have been able to enter Japan under a government visa-entry exemption that is generally used for emergency workers in disasters that uses Japan’s hosting this summer’s Olympics as the rationale behind that nonsense.

So this past weekend, the BayStars guys all arrived — including new import Fernando Romero, who tested positive for the coronavirus at Narita Airport.

Today’s headlines are filled with the flood of new arrivals, as all the non-resident “emergency” players began arriving.

So that’s four teams, more will follow.

Ono to start Dragons’ home opener on Tuesday

Sawamura Award-winning lefty Yudai Ono was named to start for the Chunichi Dragons at Nagoya’s Vantelin Dome against the Giants on Tuesday against Angel Sanchez, so it will be fun to watch what adjustments opponents make to him this year.

The Carp-Tigers matchup should be good, too, with two of last season’s best pitchers, Hiroshima’s 2020 rookie of the year Masato Morishita and Hanshin’s Yuki Nishi.

Starting pitchers

(All results given are for 2020)

Pacific League

Fighters vs Lions: Sapporo Dome 6:30 pm, 5:30 am EDT

Ryusei Kawano (3-5, 5.07) vs Wataru Matsumoto (6-7, 4.37)

Marines vs Eagles: Zozo Marine Stadium 5:45 pm, 4:45 am EDT

Kazuya Ojima (7-8, 3.73) vs Takayuki Kishi (7-0, 3.21)

Buffaloes vs Hawks: Kyocera Dome 6 pm, 5 am EDT

Daiki Tajima (4-6, 4.05) vs Shunsuke Kasaya (4-4, 2.84)

Central League

BayStars vs Swallows: Yokohama Stadium 5:45 pm, 4:45 am EDT

Shinichi Onuki (10-6, 2.53) vs Albert Suarez (4-4, 2.67)

Dragons vs Giants: Vantelin Dome 6:15 pm, 5:15 am EDT

Yudai Ono (11-6, 1.82) vs Angel Sanchez (8-4, 3.08)

Carp vs Tigers: Mazda Stadium 6 pm, 5 am EDT

Masato Morishita (10-3, 1.91) vs Yuki Nishi (11-5, 2.26)

Active roster moves 3/29/2021

Deactivated players can be re-activated from 4/8

Central League

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None

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BayStarsP59Kentaro Taira
SwallowsP11Yasunobu Okugawa
SwallowsOF42Tomotaka Sakaguchi

Pacific League

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MarinesOF38Akito Takabe
EaglesP56Sora Suzuki