The Tigers have been playing excellent baseball in the past month or so. Losses were few and far between, and series losses were becoming so rare, they were more like mythology than real life. But during this particular weekend, the team had uncharacteristically poor fundamentals. Two errors and two (or three, depending on how you…
The Hanshin Tigers have been hard at work down in Okinawa. Camp started on February 1, and runs through the 27th. Starting this weekend, practice games will become more frequent, and we will see which players are going to get more playing time during the March exhibition games, and which will end up in the…
It is obvious that the Tigers have not been playing with the same fire in their bellies since they clinched the pennant on September 14. Even though the games matter less, it is still good to see the team win games and perform well. Now that Game 143 is in the books, the team will…
Happy New Year to everyone out there. We are slowly but surely creeping closer to the start of spring training, which means it is time to catch everyone up to speed on roster movements that have taken place between the last playoff game of 2022 and the beginning of official team workouts in 2023! Here…
The 2022 draft picks got their new uniforms today. Below is the list of new numbers given out, as well as the most recent and most famous players to have worn the numbers. (Source: Tigers Official) Round 1: OF Shota Morishita – #1: Takashi Toritani (2004-19) / Toritani, Tom O’Malley (1991-94) “My goal in my…
Post-draft reports from 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015 New manager, same excitement on Draft Day, which was October 20 this year. Freshly-minted (though retread and 64 years old) manager Akinobu Okada did not divulge which young man he would aim to acquire in the first round, though nine NPB teams did in…