When attending a baseball game in Japan, one must experience the food in tandem with the action on the field! Japan is world-renowned for putting a lot of thought, effort, and quality into its cuisine… and the ballparks are no exception! There is a lot of great food besides what we have for you here,…
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss team news, the last eleven games of Tigers baseball, take a few jabs at the manager, and try to figure out what has gone wrong with all-stars Teruaki Sato and Ryutaro Umeno. Recorded on: April 24, 2023 Become a Patron and receive rewards! patreon.com/thehanshintigers Contact us at: thehanshintigers@gmail.com Subscribe to…
This weekend was a rematch between the last two teams standing in the Central League last season. The Tigers got swept by the Swallows at Jingu to end manager Akihiro Yano‘s tenure with the team. In came new manager Akinobu Okada, who has a great head for the game and is said to be a…
Tsuyoshi Shinjo made the headlines daily last winter when he reached an agreement to become manager of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. This book was released toward the end of February 2022, before his first season as manager began. Surely at the time of “writing” the book (more on those quotation marks later), he had accepted…
Source: Hanshin Official / Nikkan Sports Well folks, it’s officially a new era for the Hanshin Tigers. Not only have they brought in a new manager (Akinobu Okada, who also managed the team from 2004-08), but they officially announced the new slogan on December 17, and yesterday (January 23), they unveiled their annual “Ultra Summer”…
New manager, new farm camp location! That’s right! No longer will our young horticulturalists be freezing their crops in Kochi Prefecture in February. Read on for tentative schedules and rosters for both camps, which are now approximately 30 minutes apart by car! Wednesday, February 1 – Monday, February 27 Scheduled days off: February 3 (Fri),…
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…
2022 was the Year of the Tiger, and was supposed to be our year to win the pennant. As you surely know by now, that did not happen. But that does not mean it was not a year to remember! There was a lot to rejoice (and lament) over during the past 365 days. Here’s…
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…