4 Internal Prospects 5 Foreign Imports 6 Spring Training Surveying the Landscape Japan’s Central League has six teams, which are currently ranked the way I expect them to finish the season: 1. Hiroshima Carp 2. Hanshin Tigers 3. Yokohama DeNA Baystars ...
Patrick»21 June 2008 »Inmlb prospects,npb»Comments Offon Koji Uehara to Return as a Middle Reliever MLB-bound pitcher Koji Uehara will return to the Yomiuri Giants when league play resumes on June 27. Uehara began the season in rotation, going 0-4 with a 6.75 before missing two mo...
The decision will have a big impact on Sasaki's future MLB prospects. Now, he'll not only attend a U.S. university -- there are rumors that Vanderbilt is interested -- but will also be eligible for the MLB Draft in three seasons. Were he to enter the NPB draft, he would need to ...
The decision will have a big impact on Sasaki's future MLB prospects. Now, he'll not only attend a U.S. university -- there are rumors that Vanderbilt is interested -- but will also be eligible for the MLB Draft in three seasons. Were he to enter the NPB draft, he would need to ...
a) have accumulated at least 200 rtg2 points in his career to date or b) be a pitcher with at least 100 career estimated win shares (EWS) in his career to date. The first standard eliminates those players who are too old to be regarded as hot prospects for the majors in 2006 or af...
The first standard eliminates those players who are too old to be regarded as hot prospects for the majors in 2006 or after. The second set of requirements are designed to ensure that the players selected are rather high quality talents in Japan. ...
Near infrared (NIR) and broad spectral (BS) responsive organic photodiodes (OPDs) have broad application prospects because of their unique characteristics. In order to fabricate excellent devices, suppressing dark currents under reverse bias is a key indicator to improve the performance of OPDs. Here...
Near infrared (NIR) and broad spectral (BS) responsive organic photodiodes (OPDs) have broad application prospects because of their unique characteristics. In order to fabricate excellent devices, suppressing dark currents under reverse bias is a key indicator to improve the performance of OPDs. Here...
In recent weeks, I’ve written about some of the better MLB prospects who are currently active in Japan, and looked back at some of skills that have translated well from NPB to MLB. Now we’ll see how Japan’s Next Top Pitcher, Kenta Maeda, stacks up against his most recent ...
Patrick»17 September 2011 »Inkbo,mlb,mlb prospects,nichibei,npb»3 Comments It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. So long, in fact, that the draft post had some links from July in it. Between when I started this and now, some interesting random things have happened...