... Pittsburgh Pirates, if only because it gives me a reason to go digging around the internet for baseball news. ... Now it's a Japanese pirate, just like Iwamura-san ...
... Thus, when Todd was once again battered around for five runs on seven hits in 4.1 on the 21st of July, I thought of the Japanese. They love baseball, I thought ...
... and acting as if invisible hands are holding you back), there was plenty of good actual baseball to watch. Hiroki Kuroda, the Dodgers' Japanese right-hander ...
... OK, we don't have sources, more like a leak -- you can now pronounce the names of Major League Baseball players just ... Japanese names are just like American names ...
... you're seeing one of the most impressive collections of pure athletic talent in all of baseball. ... Akinori Iwamura, the Rays' Japanese import, mans second base. ...
... and still somehow putting up numbers that pitchers all over baseball just can ... Hiroki Kuroda, the Dodgers' latest Japanese import, was very strong in his first ...
... whenever needed, and the Red Sox just may have the best rotation in all of baseball. ... Hideki Okajima, Boston's other Japanese import, can be unhittable at times ...
... It's the same in the baseball world. ... I like Kawakami's stuff a little better than Uehara overall, and the idea of a big name Japanese talent coming to the ...