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
The first is an analysis of where Ichiro stands relative to Cooperstown.
The second is an analysis of the major league equivalents of top seasons of the NPB hitters I think are worthy of Cooperstown.
The final article is an analysis of the major league equivalents of top seasons of other NPB players.
Also, my reworking of the articles on Oh's case for Cooperstown is in the current edition of The Baseball Research Journal.
Now I've got to get to finishing updating things through the end of 2004 and making the corrections to hitters because of the issue of my mistake in the formula calculating estimated win shares. That will keep me busy for a while.
Jim Albright
[Title edited by: Admin on Mar 8, 2005 10:29 AM JST]