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Oscar Colas Of The Chicago White Sox (eventually)
Cuban outfielder Oscar Colas, formerly of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, has apparently agreed to a deal with the Chicago White Sox that will go into affect with the next MLB international signing period...
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There's been a bevy of new set announcements over the past few weeks, most of which are team sets. Here's a quick round up of them:- BBM has announced four more of their annual "comprehensive" team...
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Card Of The Week April 4
Carter Stewart Jr of the Hawks made his second start of 2021 with Softbank's farm team yesterday and threw 5 shutout innings against the Dragons, striking out five while walking one and giving up six...
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Hisashi Iwakuma
Back to the retirement posts...Hisashi Iwakuma announced his retirement last season. He was a fifth round pick of the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes in the 1999 draft out of Horikoshi High School. He made...
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Jeong Keun-Woo
Jeong Keun-Woo, most recently with the LG Twins and longtime mainstay of the Korean National Team, retired at the end of last season. Jeong was originally drafted by the SK Wyverns in 2004 and made...
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Tomomi Takahashi
You'd be forgiven if you had thought Lions pitcher Tomomi Takahashi had retired before the end of last season - he's been on Seibu's ikusei roster the last two years. Takahashi had spent a couple...
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One Iconic Baseball Card For Every Team
As part of Topps' 70th Anniversary, MLB.com had an article up earlier this week that listed "One Iconic Baseball Card For Each Team". I thought it might be interesting to do something similar for...
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Card Of The Week April 11
A little over a year ago I got curious about what was the oldest BBM flagship set that had contained a card of a currently active NPB player. The answer last year was the 1998 set which had Ryota...
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Yuya Kubo
Another player who retired last fall was pitcher Yuya Kubo, most recently a member of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Kubo was the top draft pick of the Yomiuri Giants in the 2002 draft out of Tokai...
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Naoto Watanabe
Naoto Watanabe is yet another player who retired at the end of the 2020 season. Watanabe had been the Eagles' fifth round pick in the university/industrial league player portion of the 2006 draft. He...
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Hiroki Uemoto
Yet another player who retired after the 2020 season was Hanshin Tigers infielder Hiroki Uemoto. Uemoto had been a star player with Koryo High School in Hiroshima and played in several spring and...
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Toru Hosokawa
Longtime NPB catcher Toru Hosokawa retired at the end of the 2020 season. Hosokawa was the top pick of the Lions in the 2001 NPB draft although he actually joined the team as their "free acquisition...
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Tatsuya Uchi
Longtime Chiba Lotte Marine pitcher Tatsuya Uchi announced his retirement back in January. Uchi was the Marines number one pick out of Kawasaki Kogyo High School in the 2003 draft. He made his debut...
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Card Of The Week April 18
Yesterday was a big day in NPB with Masahiro Tanaka making his first appearance in a meaningful game in Japan since Game Seven of the 2013 Nippon Series and Carter Stewart Jr, made his NPB debut....
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2011 BBM Tokyo Big Six Spring Version Set - Where Are They Now?
Ten years ago this month BBM released yet another set for the Tokyo Big Six collegiate league. The 2011 BBM Tokyo Big Six Spring Version set was their seventh for the league and their eighth overall...
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Koji Aoyama
Koji Aoyama, longtime bullpen mainstay for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, announced his retirement back in November. Aoyama was the third round pick of the Eagles in the 2005 University/industrial...
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RIP Adrian Garrett
Sad news announced today - former MLB and NPB player Adrian Garrett passed away from pneumonia at age 78. Garrett had spent three years with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp from 1977 to 1979 and helped the...
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Katsuki Yamazaki
Longtime catcher for the Hawks and Buffaloes Katsuki Yamazaki announced his retirement at the end of last season. Yamazaki was the fourth round pick of the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks out of Hōtoku Gakuen...
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Takehiro Ishikawa
The final retirement post (for now anyway) is for a player who wasn't officially retired until after I finally started doing the post-2020 retirement posts two months ago. Longtime Baystars infielder...
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Card Of The Week April 25
Today Samsung Lions reliever Oh Seung-hwan became the first pitcher in KBO history to reach 300 saves. He had notched 277 before departing the KBO for the Hanshin Tigers in 2014 and got the remaining...
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