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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, February 03, 2023These MLB legends were trailblazers in Japan
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Posted: February 03, 2023 at 02:22 PM | 8 comment(s)
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1. Walt Davis Posted: February 03, 2023 at 06:16 PM (#6115644)The Central League was very much a pitcher's league in 1962, with a total BA of .231 and SLG of .335. Newcombe's .473 SLG ranked third in the league, behind only Sadaharu Oh and Shigeo Nagashima of the Giants, two of the biggest names in Japanese baseball history.
Ohtani, eat your heart out! Sure it was worth only 5.3 WAR(I assume he only batted in games in which he pitched) in total but those raw numbers are pretty darn impressive.
Nope, he pitched in 34 games but has 57 games in his batting game logs. He was definitely used frequently as a PH. Career 83 OPS+ should be good for 3rd all time with 100% of games as a pitcher or PHR and at least 500 PA's (Newcombe had over 1000). Oddly Stathead doesn't list him under these criteria, not sure why. I don't see any games at other than pitcher on his B-R page. Schoolboy Rowe at 88, George Uhle at 86, and Carl Mays at 82 are the other top guys.
*Lefty O'Doul is in for being sort of the godfather of Japanese professional baseball (although he never played there). Wally Yonamine was born in Hawaii, played minor league ball, spent a year in the NFL, and then had a career in Japan. Tadashi Wakabayashi sort of counts. He was born in Hawaii, went to college in Japan, and spent the rest of his life there.
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