If you are a new fan or are not particularly familiar with the team, let this be your introduction! We are going to break down the entire roster for you very briefly so you can get a feel for who is whom, what they have done, and what they might do in 2023 and beyond….
After winning six straight, including a sweep at Tokyo Dome against the Giants, it looked as though the Tigers were turning the corner on their season. Alas, as tends to be the case, the series after facing the Giants was a stinker. Golden Week was anything but golden as kids at Koshien were treated to…
Quick: when was the last time the Hanshin Tigers took all three games in a series against the Giants at Tokyo Dome? The answer, apparently, pre-dates H-TEN by a year. It was 2013! Junya Nishi showed us why he was worth being chosen in the first round of the 2019 draft, going 7 strong innings….
Here is a list of guys who contributed to the team’s HUGE win today, and where they came from: Aaron Wilkerson (5 IP 2 R, Milwaukee Brewers) / Yuta Watanabe (1 IP 0 R, W, SoftBank Hawks) / Ren Kajiya (1 IP 0 R, SoftBank Hawks) / Yoshio Itoi (2-4, 2 RBI, Orix Buffaloes) /…
If you are a new fan and are not particularly familiar with the team, let this be your introduction! We are going to break down the entire roster for you very briefly so you can get a feel for who is whom, what they have done, and what they might do in 2022 and beyond….
After the first two games of this series went to the team that did not deserve them (in my opinion… Friday’s Dragons committed 4 errors and still pulled off a win, while Hanshin’s lone hit that left the infield was its last one on Saturday), this one actually played out quite calmly. Very little drama,…
Yesterday’s loss left a bad taste in the mouths of many a Hanshin fan, and the scoreless inning streak looked like it might even stretch all the way to Sunday. All game, only two Tigers made it to first base safely, both on infield hits, through 24 outs. Fortunately, as they say, baseball is a…
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…
If you’re a normal, sane person, you’ve been hibernating all winter. The snow is not yet melting and the ground has yet to thaw. Still, baseball is just around the corner, and it’s time to catch you up on the offseason departures.
This post will be updated as the offseason progresses. Some players have already been cut, while others are in the evaluation process. The table below lists players that have officially been released by the club, as well as some that T-Ray and Jake predicted (or hoped) would be canned during Episode 87 of the podcast.