Player | Team | Height | Year | Games | W | L | S | ERA |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hillman Bross Acre Minchey Baatosasu(?) Animal David Rivera | CLM YS YS HC YS HT YG HT | 208 205 203 203 201 200 200 200 | 1995 1995 1998 1998 1991 1986 1997 1998 | 28 32 12 35 18 42 7 44 | 12 14 0 15 3 5 0 2 | 9 5 2 11 5 3 0 3 | 0 0 0 0 0 19 4 27 | 2.87 2.33 2.34 2.75 5.61 2.63 6.00 2.38 |
As you can see, six of the eight were very effective. What the article failed to say was who was right and left handed. I looked up the ones since 1995 in my database (excluding David, who joined late) with the following results:
+---------+--------+
| RegName | Throws |
+---------+--------+
| Acre | R |
| Bross | R |
| Hillman | L |
| Minchey | R |
| Rivera | R |
+---------+--------+
Four out of five are right handed. While I don't know about the two who had poor records, it looks like Turman could be very promising this year. The only down side I see right now is that Yokohama seems to have a jinx against foreign pitchers. Those who do well get injured too soon. Those who don't get injured soon, don't do too well.
By the way, how long do you think it'll be before someone at The Japan Times notices that the sidebar still says "Baseball 2001" for recent 2002 articles?
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Or is this, to follow on from a different thread, just one more sign of the drain of American talent across the Pacific to Japan?