Name (Japanese): ジョン・エドワーズ Date of Birth: January 8, 1988 Hometown: Chicago, Illinois High School: Keller High (Texas) Family Status: Married, three sons Position: Relief Pitcher Height: 196 cm (6’5″) Weight: 108 kg (238 lbs) Throws/Bats: Right/Right Wore #: 42 Originally drafted by: St. Louis Cardinals, 2006 (Round 14) Signed With Tigers on: December 21, 2019 Top…
The news has been fairly plentiful in the past couple of weeks while I have been taking an extended break from the updates. We’ll stick to the basics here. First and foremost, the Tigers have decided not to renew the contracts of two foreigners: outfielder Jerry Sands and reliever Jon Edwards. Both joined the team…
The Hanshin Tigers were slumping when we hit the all-star break, and everyone agreed that the month off would do them some good. If it did, the results did not show any of those benefits. Sure, baseball is a game of inches, and the near-double play in the top of the first meant 4 runs…
I’ll be honest with you. I predicted the Tigers would go 1-2 against the Buffaloes and they did. I predicted they would go 1-2 against the Hawks and they did. I predicted they would sweep the Fighters and they did. So a part of me was hoping to be right about a 1-2 finish against…
There’s nothing more dangerous than playing a team that is riding an extra-long winless streak. You just don’t want to be the team that ends it for them. And yet these Tigers played their worst game of the year, and what honestly should have been a 1-1 tie at worst ended up a blowout loss,…
Hosts T-Ray, JD and Sanjay bask in the glow of the team’s previous 10 games, and then try to offer possible solutions to the import problem that manager Akihiro Yano is about to need to figure out: how to fit 8 highly talented imports on a roster with a 5-import limit? Also, here’s our post-show…
Last year, Covid-19 only permitted me to attend one baseball game. This year, I got a quick start to matching that number, as I headed out to Hanshin Koshien Stadium in the preseason to catch the Tigers-Lions battle-for-feline-supremacy match (Part II). It was a cloudy, cool Saturday afternoon, and Koyo Aoyagi was on the mound…
Source: Hanshin Tigers Official The Hanshin Tigers announced on Monday that they are bringing back outfielder Jerry Sands, pitchers Jon Edwards and Joe Gunkel, plus infielder Jefry Marte, for the 2021 season. Yet to be announced, but assumed to be done deals are contracts with 2020 closer Robert Suarez, KBO MVP Mel Rojas Jr, KBO…
Tora (虎) = Tiger Kichi (キチ) = short for kichigai (気違い) = lunatic We are… Episode 008: Gaijin (Un-)Employment Center Hard to believe the season is coming to an end here real quick… and yet, given that it’s already past the midway point of October, it’s a wonder (and a joy) to be able to…
Tonight, the Tigers added yet another player to the already-long list of guys who are in need of medical attention. At some point early in the Wednesday night game against the Hiroshima Carp (which ended in a 3-3 tie), captain Kento Itohara broke the hamate bone in his right hand and will likely need at…