The Mighty Katoh!!! It was so great to watch his 2024 season!

Roki, shohei, yoshi, Snell, Glasnow…. That’s one hell of a rotation

Sugano is lower-body scandals, low-morale pitcher. lol

Sugano is going to get lit up! Typical cheap Orioles move.

Is there anyway to contact you, I am interested in an interview for WBAL Radio home of the Baltimore Orioles for more information on Sugano. Thanks

Legendary stuff as always!

Underrated channel. Love you content fr

Super fun video! Thanks for posting

Appreciate the new mic/mixing.

Aoyagi changed his number between '22 and '23 and immediately fell off. Coincidence? I think not!

As always, great timely post and more of why this is a great channel. Thank you!

Aoyagi would have a hard time waiting for a MLB team to sign him, because I believe a starting pitcher with sidearm or submarine pitch is something exclusive to Japan. Most importantly, Aoyagi’s unique pitching style is the mix of sidearm and submarine.

I would love for Ogasawara to go to the 'stros. Josh Miller would definitley help improve Oga's pitching.

My first reaction to the sugano deal was how much of a steal it feels like.. and why can't the jays do this 😭 glad he signed this time around but part of me wishes his first attempt was successful to truly showcase his skills

Thanks for keeping us up to date 🙏 mlb network only talks about Sasaki

I've been a Yokohama fan for decades and felt like I was dreaming. Baystars used to be such an underdog..

Hayato Sakamoto is a superstar in Japanese baseball.

Right now, I am hoping the Astros will trade for Seiya Suzuki while signing Shinnosuke Ogasawara. How is that for Opening Day at Daikin Park?!

Such a good list and not even a slot for Kimiyasu Kudoh--one of my all-time favorite pitchers. It shows you how much talent the NPB has. Great episodes. Thank you for all the hard work that is put into them.

Do you think there's any chance Tomoya Mori is our catcher at 2026 WBC? Also, what do you think are the chances of a Yoshida Kondoh Suzuki OF at 2026 WBC?

I didn't know bro looks so good when he was young

What do you think about Tatsumi from Rakuten?

56:27 Definitely Hiroto Takahashi will be a second generation Yoshinobu Yamamoto if he stay healthy. He struggled a little bit with his command at the beginning of the year to copy Yamamoto's form, but he was dominant once he mastered. I highly believe he will be the next pitcher to have a hype once Sasaki goes to major. An interesting fact is that he chose to go to university, but he wasn't approved, so he chose to subscribe to go pro.

I wished you put a time mark for each guy but great work.

1:23:07 Yuudai Yamamoto not making 50 you missed? Dude just got the gold glove with some decent offensive numbers too

as someone who has never watched an NPB game in my life, but is highly interested in international baseball, I love your channel. Always watch the yearly top 50 vid and have for last few years

No Polish 😂 you go out and throw polish all good talking about it but you go out and do better 😎

There must definitely be some American scouts watching this channel.

Such a great story. I saw the BayStars beat Yomiuri in Yokohama last year. The atmosphere was incredible. I became a BayStars fan that night. This is an incredible result! Great job. Go BayStars!

Him and Munetaka Murakami will post in 2025 and be future Dodgers. Book it.

He didn't play enough games a season to play as a mlb starting pitcher regularly physically I don't think he will stay healthy unless he fills out physically.

I can only hope he doesn't go to the Dodgers. I hope he picks either the Padres or the Cubs.

is the lottery part rigged though?

Fuck!

If he develops well, he could be the next 3000 hitter or maybe the 1st 500HR hitter from Asia. I think Shohei could have 3000 hits and 500 Homers if he went with his original plan to bypass the NPB and go straight to the Majors. Maybe he never throws a single pitch, like the higher ups at Hokkaido NHF warned him about, but he could definitely play RF and have a successful career nonetheless and he probably doesn’t have to miss a lot of games due to TJ surgery.

This one deserves a more deep dive. Didn't know that Hiroshima Carp went to a historic collapse out of the wildcard then the series... I bet this one going to be an hour of deep dive especially coming off from having Japanese fans seeing Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto won the World Series before the final game of Japan Series.

Just found your channel and loving the videos I've watched. Wondering are you going to do a draft review like you did last year? Keep it up man!

This longtime fan of baseball EVERYWHERE says: "Thanks so much for a well done video." I've been wanting to attend a Japanese baseball game since the early 80's.

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In japan they name their teams after corporations instead of their region?

In an just world, Ohtani Sasaki Yamamoto ect stay in Japan and it's American baseball stars coming to Japan to play Baseball. Because Japan is the true baseball country now (more than the US) and has the best baseball market with the best fans (Again Americans pefer Padded Rugby more than Baseball now). But, The world isn't fair. Money rules everything. And the Americans have the money.

Marines GM is totally sucked. Professional baseball is nothing but business. They have made catastrophic damage to NPB imo. In addition, current posting system had already been made valid when Sasaki was picked. So he understood it and didn’t take a risk like Hyun-seok Jung who joined LAD farming system right after high school. That’s why some NPB fans don’t celebrate Sasaki’s departure.

Munetaka Murakami ???????????? Roki Sasaki???????

Imma be real with you, I almost would rather see him on the Red Sox than on the Dodgers at this point. I don't want the Dodgers to become a club version of the Japanese national team. I'm still excited that Sasaki is finally coming to MLB, even with all the weird circumstances, but I don't want the Dodgers to just snap up the best players in Japan before anyone else even has a chance to negotiate

I don't think Sasaki is giving up that much money by going to MLB early. After he accrues 3 years of MLB service at minimum wage, he'll be eligible for arbitration and many teams will sign players to long term contracts year 4+ buying out their arbitration years. So if he waited to leave NPB after 25 years old, he would get his big contract just one year earlier and everything is health contingent anyways.

One Nippon series as the Taiyo Whales, one Nippon Series as the Yokohama Baystars, one Nippon Series as the Yokohama DeNA Baystars.

Honestly, as a dodger fan who will likely land sasaki, this is kinda unfortunate for japanese fans. I feel like posting this early is unfair.