Sources: Yahoo / Mainichi Nippon Professional Baseball brought representatives from all 12 teams together on the 9th in Tokyo, and have agreed to delay the start of the 2020 regular season, which was scheduled to start on March 20. When asked about when the season might start, league commissioner Atsushi Saitoh said, “We aim to…
Sources: Yahoo / Daily / Daily The Chiba Lotte Marines announced on March 10 that they have signed ex-Hanshin Tigers infielder Takashi Toritani (38) to a one-year deal for the 2020 season. He will earn an estimated ¥16 million ($150,000) and wear #00. Marines’ skipper Tadahito Iguchi had this to say about signing Toritani: “He…
Source: Yahoo / Sponichi Katsumi Hirosawa (KH), who was the team’s 81st ever #4 hitter, sat down to talk with new infielder Justin Bour (JB), who is primed to become the 105th #4 hitter in team history. They talked about the right-field winds at Koshien Stadium (a.k.a. hamakaze), making adjustments to Japanese baseball, home runs……
It’s that time of year again, everyone! We’re just a few weeks from the beginning of another season of baseball! As we have done each of the past few years, we would like to extend an invitation to you, to send us an audio file of your predictions for the upcoming season. The person who…
Episode 001: Friendship History, Position Battles Bro, I am so glad to do this with you! We definitely had a blast doing the Top 10 Games last year! Always a pleasure man. That was definitely fun. Glad to do this once again. Let’s fill everyone in a little on how we first met – after…
Host T-Ray is joined by JD and Sanjay as they go over the preseason games, explain NPB’s cancellation of spectator-games for the rest of preseason, and then talk about who belongs in the starting order on Opening Day, plus, who belongs in the rotation, the bullpen, and on the bench. Finally, the annual Central League…
Read in Japanese on Daily Sports / トレバーの虎場（デイリー）はこちら A couple of years back when I looked inside Beat Tamashii Shop (just outside Koshien Stadium), a poem on a t-shirt caught my eye: Every year, I have the same dream… A dream that this year is going to be the year But every year ends with…
Sources: NPB / Hanshin Tigers / Hanshin Tigers The 12 pro baseball teams that comprise NPB reached a decision today that all remaining exhibition games (scheduled from February 29 – March 15) will be played, but will not be attended by the general public. This ruling will also include spring practice games held by the…
The 2020 season is almost upon us! Time to take the jersey out of your closet, dust it off, and get it ready for a new year, an exciting year, perhaps the year that Hanshin wins the pennant! And what better way to decorate your jersey than to put one of our patches on yours?…
For the past seven days, it has been in theatres near you (if you live in Japan). And at long last, H-TEN took it in on this day. There were around 30 people in a 200-seat cinema, which I suppose should be expected for a Thursday matinee. Anyhow, let’s get down to business. There are…