Here is a breakdown of each player’s grand totals so far: Name AVG R HR RBI SB IP W K WHIP ERA Hit Points Pitch Points Total T-Ray .260 54.9 13.2 63.9 4.6 92.3 6.6 82.1 1.47 3.41 14 13 27 James .224 36.1 1 29.4 5 81.7 4.8 60.5 1.43 3.64 7 9 16 Fernando…
Have you ever played (or heard of) fantasy baseball? It’s a game played on the cyber-diamond, usually between friends, in which everyone selects a pre-determined number of real-life players, whose real-life statistics then count in the fantasy game. For a better, more detailed explanation, click here. I have played MLB fantasy baseball every year since…
Now, I’ve had my encounters with Hanshin Tigers players before. Some of you remember my report about meeting Matt Murton at Starbucks. Others will have read my more recent report about bumping into (not literally, thank God) Randy Messenger, Mauro Gomez, Marcos Mateo, Matt Hague, and Tom O’Malley at a Mexican restaurant in Okinawa. But…
The Hanshin Tigers have re-opened their 2016 Official Fan Club for applications. You can apply any time from now until May 22. For details, go to this webpage. If you live overseas or have problems with reading Japanese, send me an e-mail (info@thehanshintigers.com) and I will try to help you out. In the meantime, enjoy…
Hey everyone! Thanks for coming back to H-TEN (Hanshin Tigers English News) again and again throughout 2015. It has been a fun year following the team, and I have made a lot of inroads when it comes to broadening my circle of friends/acquaintances in the Hanshin Tigers community as well as in the NPB world….
Some people say Santa Claus doesn’t exist or is not real. They might be right, and Santa might be nothing but a myth, but I met a legend who was dressed as a myth, visiting Japan to bring joy and hope to millions. As he does many Decembers, former Hanshin Tigers great Randy Bass made…
You wouldn’t think it would be a hard task to find a newly published Hanshin Tigers magazine in the Kansai area… and yet I went to major bookstores in Sannoymiya (Kobe), Ashiya and Nishinomiya and came up fruitless. FINALLY today I found it! In Himeji, of all places! So here’s the book I searched high and…
Yesterday my fellow Hanshin Tigers fan Peter Gibson, who lives down in Australia and will be featured on the next podcast, dropped a bomb on his Facebook page: he and Tigers legend (that word is practically an understatement, as he is practically deified in Kansai) Randy Bass became Facebook friends. Guess who’s a little jelly?…
Dear H-TEN readers, listeners, and all Hanshin Tigers fans, Hanshin Tigers English News has been in operation for just over 18 months now. We hope you have been satisfied with the services we have offered in the past. We also hope to continue to offer you high quality coverage of the Hanshin Tigers in English…
Thank you all for supporting H-TEN for the last 18 months. More specifically, H-TEN has been the site name for just 4 months now. It has been an amazing experience to follow the Hanshin Tigers closely and to bring you all the news in English so you could also follow the team more closely. The…