This is a site about Pro Yakyu (Japanese Baseball), not about who the next player to go over to MLB is. It's a community of Pro Yakyu fans who have come together to share their knowledge and opinions with the world. It's a place to follow teams and individuals playing baseball in Japan (and Asia), and to learn about Japanese (and Asian) culture through baseball.
It is my sincere hope that once you learn a bit about what we're about here that you will join the community of contributors.
Michael Westbay
(aka westbaystars)
Founder
However, I'm posting this now so that if anyone wants to archive any of the articles based on the old rating system or statistics for players who are chosen based upon those ratings, you may want to download them now so you have them. I will be overwriting the old articles and a few of the data pages so that any links to the old articles will be to the same subject in almost all cases as the new ones. The pages in question can be found at 1) The career pitching and batting data found by links in the data archive on the stats page and 2) the articles through the links from my top page.
Jim Albright