Baseball

The friendly games of the Japan national baseball team, officially nicknamed Samurai Japan, was held from November 10 to 13 at the Tokyo Dome. Japan played with Mexico in the first and second game, and played with Netherlands in the third and 4th game. The purpose of this games is the selection of player for …

In the Japan professional baseball, only the player of declaring free agency becames the free agent and can negotiate with other teams. In this year, 6 players declared free agency. They could negotiate from November 11, so some players got a meeting. The negotiation deadline is until November 30. Yoshio Itoi of the Orix Buffaloes negotiated with the Hanshin Tigers. Tomoaki …

The 2016 WBSC U-23 Baseball World Cup was held at Mexico from October 28 to November 6. The players of 23 years old and under could participate in this tournament and 12 countries participated. The national team of Japan was chosen to focusing on professional players. This was the first time of the tournament, the qualifying was performed that …

Hideaki Wakui of the Chiba Lotte Marines announced that he married Moe Oshikiri of a Japanese famous model. They were acquainted from 3 years ago. When Oshikiri threw the first ball, Wakui taught her how to throw. Then they have been dating for 1 year, and registered a marriage on November 1. They are already living together in Tokyo. Hideaki …

Latest News: About 2 months have passed already from the first game of Japanese professional baseball (NPB). On May 25 Hanshin Tigers played against Tokyo Yomiuri Giants at Koshien stadium. Yoshio Itoi was the lead‐off man of the Tigers, he hit 1 for 3 and Tigers beat Giants 6 to 1. Until this game, Itoi was no hits in …

The baseball game of the 2016 Japan series was held from October 22 to 29. The game was playing between the climax series winner of the Central league and the climax series winner of the Pacific league, the Hiroshima Carp and the Hokkaido Nipponham Fighters has played in this year. And they were the first place …

Kris Johnson , a pitcher for the Hiroshima Carp won this year’s Sawamura Award on October 24. Sawamura Award is a proof that has been made in honor of achievements of the legend pitcher, Eiji Sawamura. Johnson was an another japanese player who won this award for the first time in 52 years, former Hanshin Tigers Gene Bacque. And Johnson won …

The Japan proffesional baseball entry draft was held at Tokyo in October 20. The draft targeted at the amateur babseball players of Japanese nationality, it corresponds to the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in MLB. In Japan, All team selected a hope player for the first round draft pick. If a same player was nominated, the team drew …

In October 18, Hiroki Kuroda of the Hiroshima Carp announced his retirement from professional baseball in 2016 season. In the press conference of retirement, Kuroda told the reason of retirement that the Carp won the championship of the Central League. Because he has a strong sense of responsibility so he would have had a sense of achievement. …