Host T-Ray is joined by JD and Sanjay as they discuss the past three months of inaction, recap a few friendly preseason games, and talk about the players that need to make a difference in 2020. Finally, the annual Central League predictions contest has been announced as well! Get details here or check the site…
Tora (虎) = Tiger Kichi (キチ) = short for kichigai (気違い) = lunatic We are… Episode 002: What Else? Coronavirus on the Mind Good chatting with you again, man. Thanks for taking the time! Boy, things sure have changed in the past month, since we last did this! How’s everything in Dubai? Always a pleasure,…
Source: Sponichi Hanshin Tigers pitcher Shintaro Fujinami underwent a PCR test for COVID-19 at an Osaka hospital on March 26, and it came back positive. He is the first NPB player to be diagnosed. In the days prior to his test, he complained of having lost his sense of smell, and went to several hospitals…
Read in Japanese on Daily Sports / トレバーの虎場（デイリー）はこちら A couple of years back when I looked inside Beat Tamashii Shop (just outside Koshien Stadium), a poem on a t-shirt caught my eye: Every year, I have the same dream… A dream that this year is going to be the year But every year ends with…
Source: Daily Sports “Yossan” has some advice to help the team to its first Nippon Series Championship in 35 years. Yoshio Yoshida, who has been named overseer or the Koshien Museum, was in attendance at the museum’s business meeting at a hotel in Osaka on the 21st. “They have a chance this year,” he said,…
Before the dawn of a new decade of Hanshin Tigers baseball, we rank the last ten renditions of the team – not based on win percentage or finish in the standings, but on how they felt as a fan. Your comments and interpretations of the 2010s is welcome in the comments!
There’s too much talent on this roster for the team to have finished 2018 in last. And now in 2019, a lot of guys have a lot to prove to coaches, fans, and themselves. Whose comeback means the most to the team? Read on…
As featured in the January 2019 edition of Monthly Tigers magazine, Ken Watanabe talks about what he thinks went wrong in 2018, why he has hope for 2019, and more. (Only the baseball parts have been translated here, though the whole interview is interesting.)
The season started so well for young Yusuke Ohyama. In fact, as spring training moved along, it looked more and more like this was going to be a break-out year for the second-year third baseman. Manager Tomoaki Kanemoto moved ironman Takashi Toritani over to second base (a position he hadn’t ever played in a league…
Source: Tospo In light of Shintaro Fujinami‘s recent struggles, particularly at Koshien Stadium (where he is winless since April 27, 2017), the Hanshin Tigers club has asked that fans tone down (or completely stop) their jeering of the young thin-skinned ace. Apparently, Fujinami has gone as far as to tell one of his friends that…