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Bour Deal Made Official!

Bour Deal Made Official!

Hanshin announced on the 14th that it has reached a deal with former Los Angeles Angels infielder Justin Bour (31). It will be a single-year deal worth $2.5 M (¥275 M), and the hopes are that the slugger will help solve Akihiro Yano’s Tigers run-production problem.

Toreba no Toraba – Baseball & English Education

Toreba no Toraba – Baseball & English Education

Daily Sports Column (Japanese) Here デイリースポーツの日本語版はこちら As someone whose lack of athletic ability should have meant never dreaming of playing professional sports, I shifted to dreaming of reporting about sports at a pretty young age. But even that dream came to a screeching halt after a year of college. I resigned to the career that…

Players Put on a Sho at Fan Appreciation Day

Players Put on a Sho at Fan Appreciation Day

November 23rd is a national holiday in Japan: Labor Thanksgiving Day. Ask the average person what that means, and they will likely shrug their shoulders or tilt their head to one side and remain silent. But this day also happens to be the day that many NPB teams hold a Fan Appreciation Day, so at…

Sanspo Interviews New Hitting Coach Inoue

Sanspo Interviews New Hitting Coach Inoue

Original article can be seen here 元の記事はこちら Inoue’s Thoughts on Solving the Weak Bats—“Put the Right Man in the Right Situation to Improve Scoring” The man who has been tasked with improving the anemic hitting exhibited this season, top squad Batting Coach Kazuki Inoue (age 48),  responded to our (Sanspo’s) interview request. His mantra is to…