NPB in English: Policy Shifts, Player Movements, KBO
There’s plenty of excellent English-language content being authored on Japanese and Asian baseball. Here are links to a few examples.
- Wayne Graczyk of the Japan Times discuss’s the Central League’s consideration of having teams announce their starting pitchers in advance, as opposed to the keep policy of keeping them secret until lineups are exchanged prior to each game. Such a policy shift would put an end to the teisatsu member tactic of inserting a player in the lineup, immediately to be removed once the opposing starter is known.
- John E. Gibson of the Daily Yomiuri has an update on pitcher DJ Houlton, who moved from Softbank to Yomiuri this offseason.
- A message thread on JapaneseBaseball.com lists this year’s KBO foreign players. I occasionally get asked about this, so it’s nice to have this list.
- Jason Coskrey of the Japan Times looks at Yomiuri’s offseason decision to effectively swap Alex Ramirez for Shuichi Murata.
- Upon the news of Marc Kroon’s retirement, Coskrey tweeted a link to his 2009 story about Kroon’s Nippon Series performance.
- JapaneseBaseball.com founder Michael Westbay has been contributing articles to the bible of Japanese baseball, Baseball Magazine. He’s posted his most recent in English to Google+.
- KBO fan Allen Wolf penned an op-ed for the Korean Times, covering the Orioles’ recent infraction over prospect Kim Seong-min. Wolf observes that “The KBO resembles an insecure autocratic regime that is desperately clinging to misguided ways in an attempt to maintain the status quo.”
I’m always on the lookout for new blogs and sources of content on Japanese baseball. If you know of any that I don’t link to, let me know.
26/02/2012 at 7:46 pm Permalink
GG Sato signed for an Italian team and will be playing third base, interesting in many ways.
http://www.mister-baseball.com/takahiko-sato-joins-fortitudo-bologna/
27/02/2012 at 12:01 am Permalink
That KBO list should have one update. Horacio Ramirez, late of the Angels, signed with the Kia Tigers, who dumped Alex Graman to make room.
27/02/2012 at 11:51 am Permalink
Patrick, can you point to any live (or archived) streams/sources that might be broadcast in Japan when Yu Darvish is pitching during intrasquad and Spring Training games?
27/02/2012 at 4:25 pm Permalink
Can someone please tell me where you can watch npg games online in america?
27/02/2012 at 4:25 pm Permalink
Npb games i mean
27/02/2012 at 4:29 pm Permalink
Can someone please tell me where i can watch npb games in america?
27/02/2012 at 9:55 pm Permalink
For games online, I’ll see what I come across and post links as I find them. Following me on twitter is a good way to catch links because I usually post them there. I’m @npbtracker.