Japan Baseball Daily Will be Closing

As they say, all good things come to an end at some point and the same is true of this site.

When I began this project, it was to help educate the American public and any other interested parties about Japanese baseball. It’s had its ups and downs to be sure, but I think I’ve been pretty successful at it I stopped doing daily reports because of the time and energy that took interfered with my other interests. Now I will cease updating this site after I aggregate all the stats of the 2012 season and then I will close the site at the termination of the 2013 campaign.

The best English-language Japanese baseball site on the web is going to be closing down. Fortunately, it won’t be closing down for a while.

The amount of historical information on this site is mind-blowing for anyone who has an interest in the history of Japanese baseball. The Data Warehouse section is the best site of its type on the web - it’s the Baseball Reference of Japanese baseball, with complete stats for anyone who has ever played the game there, complete with player bios in many cases. There are also league standings and team stats for all seasons, Japan Series and All-Star Game results, and sections on managers, and awards. It is truly a treasure, and much of my knowledge about Japanese players of the past is directly attributable to hours of browsing through these files.