Japan

4 posts

  1. How May We Compare Slash Line Trends?

    Former Mariners' Prospect, Wladimir Belentien , has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. While reviewing historical free agents available this late in the offseason , I stumbled across his…

  2. Obsessed with Yu

    For Cubs fans, the 2012 Hot Stove season began about two years ago. It's actually been a bit more of the 2009-2012 hot stove season for the starving franchise. Many of us have been fixated on Japanese standout Yu…

  3. Masato Watanabe Hit an Inside-the-Park Homerun off Yu Darvish Today

    Once again, thank you to Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker for keeping us informed about Japanese baseball. Regular readers of this space know we are enamored with Yu Darvish. We hope the Cubs eschew the desire to take…

  4. The Hit King, Matt Murton

    Many of us always wanted the Cubs to give Murton a chance to blossom as a lefty mashing 4th Outfielder. They gave him a chance to play, but I think the team should have shown just a bit more patience with Matt Murton .…