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Former Yomiuri Giants, Chiba Lotte Marines and Boston Red Sox pitcher Hirokazu Sawamura was another player who retired at the end of last season.  I'd written a post about him when he departed for Boston after the 2020 season


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Back to the recent retirees...
Longtime Tokyo Yakult Swallow Shingo Kawabata hung up his spikes after a twenty year career.  Kawabata was the team's third round pick in the high school player portion of the 2005 NPB draft out of Wakayama Municipal Commercial High School.  It took him a couple seasons to establish himself as a regular with the Swallows but, when heal...

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I wanted to highlight a couple events from the opening weekend of the 2026 season in both MLB and NPB...

On Friday, Munetaka Murakami of the White Sox became the first player ever to hit a home run in their first at bats in both NPB and MLB.  Murakami has followed up with home runs in his second and third MLB games as well (although, not surprisingly, the White Sox...


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I got a package in the mail the other day from my friend Steve Smith* in Australia.  Steve was kind enough to send me the cards of the three Japanese players who played for the Brisbane Bandits in this past Australian Baseball League season.
*I should mention here that baseb...

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I'm continuing my Opening Day tradition of doing a post showing a baseball card from the last year that each of the 12 NPB teams won the Nippon Series which was inspired by (or stolen from) the series of posts that 


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