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
I play with the White Sox... I'm a Hideo Nomo fan so I put "The Tornado" in my rotation... As he has poor capacities in the game, I rank it as the 6th pitcher of my starting rotation but he became quickly my ace pitcher !!! For his first start, he pitched 10 innings and earned only one run... I put a new pitcher (Genks) on the 11th inning as the score was 1-1, one pitch and HR ! We lose 2-1 but what a pleasure to play with my idol who was such strong !!!
Let's see this stats : 13 starts, 13 wins and an incredible ERA of 1.78 !!! Now, I dream about a 20 wins season and perhaps a 25 and, of course, a Cy Young Award for my favorite player...
But instead of this, Freddy Garcia has 2-7 so I trade it to the A's for Barry Zito and it's much better...