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Toreba no Toraba: Tigers Need One More Foreigner!

Toreba no Toraba: Tigers Need One More Foreigner!

From our Daily Sports Online column / デイリースポーツの連載コラムから It feels good to welcome two new foreign hitters to the Hanshin Tigers in 2023. Yohan Mieses and Sheldon Neuse, we wish you all the best! We should also tell you about the team’s track record with foreign hitters in the past two decades, in case you…

Toreba no Toraba: What Ex-Tiger Imports think of the DH

Toreba no Toraba: What Ex-Tiger Imports think of the DH

From Daily Sports Column (Japanese) / デイリースポーツオンラインの連載コラムから The Tigers’ woes continue in large part due to their lack of run support for the excellent pitching staff they have fielded this year. After their twenty-one-game streak of allowing 3 runs or fewer came to an end on May 20, they have had two games of giving…

Toreba no Toraba – There Will Be No Second Coming!

Toreba no Toraba – There Will Be No Second Coming!

Also seen in Daily Sports / デイリースポーツのコラム(トレバーの虎場) There are two things I have gotten plenty sick of since becoming a Hanshin Tigers fan six years ago. The first is the constant beatings at the hand of the Yomiuri Giants. In fact, when I first started this column at the start of the 2018 season, the…