Category Archives: Baseball, Softball, and Judo

How will Japanese players fare in 2010, according to the Bill James Handbook

By daigo | Published: Friday, February 5, 2010
I was inspired by Boston Globe’s Chad Finn’s posting on Extra Bases blog called Some interesting numbers via Bill James , and decided to look up what the projections of Japanese players for the year 2010 from the 2010 edition of the Bill James Handbook. According to James and his company, Ichiro will make History [...]
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Japan’s knuckleball princess

By daigo | Published: Thursday, January 28, 2010
Japan’s 18-year-old knuckleball princess, Eri Yoshida, is participating in instructional Arizona Winter League. And now I read that she is named a starter for the Opening Day game. Yoshida to Start Friday The Arizona Winter League (AWL) announced Japanese RHP Eri Yoshida, the 18-year old female knuckleball phenom from Japan, will start on Opening Night for [...]
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Japanese pitchers and uniform number 18

By daigo | Published: Thursday, January 14, 2010
Blog called Mets by the numbers had a kind of interesting post about significance of uniform numbers in Japanese culture: Why Igarashi Was Issued No. 18, following the news that Mets’ new reliever, Ryota Igarashi, picked the uniform number of 18 this year. Of course, our man Daisuke Matsuzaka wears number 18 for the Boston [...]
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Translating Japanese (or any other language, for that matter) is hard.

By daigo | Published: Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Whoa. I thought, by translating Daisuke Matsuzaka interview on the Magazine Friday, I was passing on a good news (Matsuzaka admits his wrong doing last year and will come back in 2010 with something to prove). But it turns out that it was first time the club lerned about the injury (yikes), and he may [...]
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Daisuke Matsuzaka’s confession, translated.

By daigo | Published: Saturday, January 9, 2010
Daisuke Matsuzaka talked to the Japanese entertainment news and gossip weekly magazine “FRIDAY” in Japan. He talked about his difficult season and revealed that he actually hurt his right inner thigh before joining Japanese team for World Baseball Classic (which he was awarded his second MVP for winning all three games he started). It is [...]
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Mosty baseball rumors and reactions, Twitter for 2009-12-20

By daigo | Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009
Busy twitter week as there were lots of baseball transactions. Red Sox get John Lackey and MIke Cameron, Hideki Matsui signs with Angels, Ryota Igarashi with Mets, and two former-Cy Young winner moves in a block buster deal between Blue Jays-Mariners-Phillies. Geez I tweet a lot about baseball.
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Arn Tellem: Godzilla Rocks Southern California

By daigo | Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009
In Huffington Post, I found this post by Hideki Matsui’s agent: Arn Tellem: Godzilla Rocks Southern California. Matsui just signed a one-year deal with the Angels. In the weeks since the Series victory, it became abundantly clear that resigning Hideki was not one of the Yankees’ priorities. Hideki’s overriding concerns have always been winning and [...]
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Hideki Matsui in “red”

By daigo | Published: Saturday, December 19, 2009
One of the biggest news in Japanese baseball front in this MLB hot stove season is that Hideki Matsui left the New York Yankees and signed with Los Angeles Angels. Seeing him wear Angels uniform for the first time was as strange as when I saw Nomar Garciaparra in Cubs uniform for the first [...]
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Twitter for 2009-12-13

By daigo | Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009
This week, my twitter was mostly about getting Red Sox tickets in the virtual waiting room. I got one for April 17, Saturday game for the family! Pretty exciting.
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How Adrian Gonzalez will benefit from Green Monster

By daigo | Published: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
From Nick Cafardo’s blog entry in Boston.com’s Extra Bases: … The Red Sox would love Gonzalez, a lefthanded hitter who hits a lot of balls to left and left-center, in their lineup, but so far there’s been no movement by the Padres to swing a deal with two years remaining on Gonzalez’s contract. I took a [...]
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