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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, November 15, 2011Verducci: Lack of Success for Japanese Stars Opens Debate About Next Wave
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Posted: November 15, 2011 at 08:29 PM | 16 comment(s)
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1. Yeaarrgghhhh Posted: November 15, 2011 at 09:51 PM (#3994315)All in all, the Japanese stars have done pretty well in the US. Matsui was good for several years, Kuroda has been pretty good, Ichiro is Ichiro, and Nomo and Dice K were both very good for a couple years.
there have been a lot of serviceable players to come over. maybe they aren't the best players in the league, but for the most part, they've produced.
Rk Yrs From To Age
1 Ichiro Suzuki 10 2001 2010 27-36
2 Hideki Matsui 5 2004 2010 30-36
3 Dave Roberts 3 2002 2006 30-34
4 Kosuke Fukudome 2 2009 2011 32-34
5 Kenji Johjima 2 2006 2007 30-31
6 Kazuo Matsui 1 2007 2007 31-31
7 Akinori Iwamura 1 2007 2007 28-28
8 Tadahito Iguchi 1 2005 2005 30-30
Pitching WAR
Rk Yrs From To Age
1 Hideo Nomo 7 1995 2003 26-34
2 Tomo Ohka 4 2000 2005 24-29
3 Hiroki Kuroda 3 2008 2011 33-36
4 Hideki Okajima 2 2007 2008 31-32
5 Daisuke Matsuzaka 2 2007 2008 26-27
6 Takashi Saito 2 2006 2007 36-37
7 Akinori Otsuka 2 2004 2006 32-34
8 Masato Yoshii 2 1998 1999 33-34
9 Shigetoshi Hasegawa 2 1998 2003 29-34
10 Koji Uehara 1 2011 2011 36-36
11 Shingo Takatsu 1 2004 2004 35-35
12 Mac Suzuki 1 2000 2000 25-25
13 Hideki Irabu 1 1998 1998 29-29
The relievers especailly - Sasaki, Saito, Otsuka and even Okajima have done very well in the U.S.
I've heard the size of the baseball thing before, specifically when Matsuzaka first came over. The Internet is all over the place with misinformation, but the best I can tell, the balls are the same size: http://japanesebaseball.com/forum/thread.gsp?forum=2&thread=22149. Anyone with more definitive info?
Is this sort of that Rick Sutcliffe tuck type thing? That was the motion I used during my 1 IP pitching career.
Japan went to a standardized ball this year for all NPB play; until this season, teams could use any ball made by any manufacturer that met the specifications. The new Mizuno ball ushered in something of a dead ball era - only nine players in the two leagues combined hit over .300, and the league ERA in one league went from 4.13 to 3.06.
The specifications of the ball are the same as in the US (adjusted for metric measurements)
Weight L Weight H Circumference L Circumfrence H
MLB 5 oz 5.25 oz 9 in 9.25 in
NPB 5.002 oz 5.253 oz 9 in 9.29 in
Japan's standardized baseballs are popular with pitchers
Hard to believe that this went on as long as it did. The difference could be very small (like Smoltz/Carpenter's gripe about the balls in Cincy), but that's still enough to affect the occasional game.
Maybe old time fans of the NPB considered it a charming variable that made their game distinct.
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