Two Talkin’ Torakichi: Episode 009 (Part 2)
The Giants are like the hot chick in high school, who thinks she’s too good for everyone else. We are the clumsy nerd who is trying so desperately to prove to her that we can play in her league.
The Giants are like the hot chick in high school, who thinks she’s too good for everyone else. We are the clumsy nerd who is trying so desperately to prove to her that we can play in her league.
Tora (虎) = Tiger Kichi (キチ) = short for kichigai (気違い) = lunatic We are… Episode 009: H-TEN Awards 2020 Here we are at the end of a shortened (but extra-long) 2020 regular season, my man. The Tigers finished 7 games over .500 (60-53-7), which after the disaster 2-10 start, is not bad. We actually…
It is that time of year again. After welcoming in 9 new guys via the draft, the team has to part ways with roughly the same number of men. At present, only one will be retiring, while the rest are likely to be looking for work elsewhere. And for a couple of these, that “elsewhere”…
Stop me if you’re familiar with this narrative… A yellow-and-black-wearing baseball team from a blue-collar city has fallen out of postseason relevance for two decades. A new manager comes in, makes necessary adjustments, and the team experiences a revival of sorts, luring people back to the ballpark once the snakebitten fairweather fans saw that the…
Daily Sports Column (Japanese) here / トレバーの虎場(デイリースポーツ)から I can still remember July 1998 like it was yesterday. I wouldn’t call myself traumatized by what happened. Just shell-shocked. I had just come to Okinawa, Japan, and the town Board of Education threw me a welcome party. There I was, sitting at a table with a bunch…
Unlike most teams, Hanshin manager Akihiro Yano did not divulge the team’s direction as to which player they would enter the sweepstakes for in Round 1 of the draft, which took place on Monday, October 26 in Tokyo (but mainly via online meetings). The team has not yet finished cutting unneeded players, but typically by…
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Sources: Daily / Sponichi / Sponichi With the 2020 Amateur Draft coming in less than a week, the Hanshin Tigers have started to declare their intentions concerning players’ contracts for 2021. Among the players not being offered new deals in 2021 are veterans and fan-favourites Kosuke Fukudome (OF, 43) and Atsushi Nohmi (LHP, 41). Fukudome…
Tora (虎) = Tiger Kichi (キチ) = short for kichigai (気違い) = lunatic We are… Episode 008: Gaijin (Un-)Employment Center Hard to believe the season is coming to an end here real quick… and yet, given that it’s already past the midway point of October, it’s a wonder (and a joy) to be able to…
Source: Sports Hochi Reports that came out on the 2nd indicate that the Tigers are strongly considering moving their farm facilities from Naruohama (bottom red dot, Nishinomiya) to Odaminami Park (far right dot, Amagasaki). Koshien Stadium is the dot on the far left of this map. Preliminary planning has already begun as last week, the…