The Sluggers of the East - Every Asian Baseball Team's Single-Season Home Run Kings (NPB, KBO, CPBL)

[@GaijinBaseball]

New font, who dis? TSG HAWKS Taiwanese: Po-jung Wang - 6 Foreign: Steven Moya - 30 UPDATE: The Kia Tigers Korean record was broken by Do-young Kim, who hit 38 Also, apologies for any mispronouciations or audio issues, and Apologies for the issues with the ChinaTrust Whales section, didn't catch that while I was in the home stretch

[@Tubewings]

FTR, what exactly is the name of that particular font?

[@GaijinBaseball]

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[@andrecastillo5232]

45:21 for the Wei Chuan Dragons.

[@GaijinBaseball]

@@andrecastillo5232 Typo in the description, fixed now

[@ggbetz]

@@GaijinBaseball i love you apologize when you make mistakes. Makes you seem more human

[@tjrhodes3640]

I appreciate you showing love to my pops Tuffy Rhodes. Growing up seeing him play was an experience like no other.

[@SuperJNG18]

Your dad was a great player!

[@GreenHornet553]

KBO and CPBL finally get their time to shine! Hooray! What an excellent video to come back on, Gaijin Baseball. Was cool to see the other two East Asian baseball leagues get some love alongside NPB. As someone who tries to catch all three plus MLB, it is great to finally see you get to cover the other two. Keep up the awesome vids, GB.

[@ChrisD123]

Awesome video my friend, really love your content. It was great to learn about baseball in Korea and Taiwan as well as the Japanese game. As a Brit, I'm a tad ashamed to say I didn't know the Scottish historical reference you dropped!

[@marcuss.9302]

I like the new layout and editing style you're trying out. It makes your videos more crisp. Also, welcome back. I hope your mental is right and everything.

[@j.j.grenade3820]

I have enjoyed watching your videos. Thank you. It's nice to see others like learning about baseball from around the world also. I'm glad I watched till the end. I thought Tuffy's 55 might have gotten left out... I agree, Tuffy is probably the best foreign player ever in Japan. He would have my vote, anyway.

[@SuperJNG18]

Big ups from NYC - these videos are great for helping me learn about international baseball!

[@pchumsky4078]

Awesome to have you back! Love learning about NPB history through your videos

[@brandonblackman4519]

Glad to have you back, boss

[@lucaribeiroguerra9608]

Welcome back my boy, awesome video

[@mrhyde8671]

I really do appreciate how much research and effort went into this and all of your videos. Keep going my man, you're doing an awesome job!

[@DiddySauce64]

Welcome Back!

[@theoceansandbox2712]

LETS GOOOOO!!! Welcome back!!

[@MyNadaquehacer]

Awesome content. Worth the wait

[@jclad5929]

Welcome Back🎉

[@thetexanshurtme]

I've never watched, and never plan to watch NPB, but I really love watching NPB videos lol

[@TheTorturedGhostOfKirkDouglas]

Great video, thanks for posting. I could be wrong, but I believe the player you identified as Shingo Kuramoto in the part about Nagoya/Chuinichi is actually a photo of Japanese HOFer Michinori Tsubochi.

[@GaijinBaseball]

Looking at it again, you're right, but a seach for Tsubochi did not turn up that photograph, wheras a search for Kuramoto did. My fault for not double-checking

[@paiwanhan]

@38:20 nice to hear Tilson Brito's name in the KBO section.

[@kyronology1533]

Technically Sadaharu Oh is a foreign citizen since his ROC (Taiwan) citizenship. His father was from mainland China when it was still governed by ROC.

[@GaijinBaseball]

But he qualifies as a Domestic Player under the current rules (went to HS and/or University in Japan) Other Taiwanese players like Nien-ting Wu and Dai-kang Yang (Daikan Yoh) were also considered domestic for the same reason

[@0super]

Wow. What an amazing job.

[@andrecastillo5232]

The grand return! BTW, skip to 45:21 for the Wei Chuan Dragons.

[@mariosportsmaster7662]

I notice there are more spectacled seasonal home run kings in the NPB than the MLB. The only one that comes to mind is the Senators slugger in the 1960s who's name eludes me at the moment.

[@walker68175]

Frank Howard

[@SIGuy7480]

Its weird how Korea loved baseball so much but only got a pro league in the 80s

[@HoshizakiYoshimasa]

They finally gave up on Japan giving them NPB expansion franchises. It wasn't going to be like MLB expanding into Canada. So Korea finally started their own league. It was actually better for Korea in the long run. More Korea cities now have teams. If Korea was in NPBz there would probably be only 4 teams in Korea.

[@kuipuru]

Before the pro league, the high school league was very popular instead.

[@ggbetz]

I liked you including the other leagues. Maybe they can come up in future videos without diluting your channel?

[@GaijinBaseball]

The main thing that's stopped me from doing a couple KBO videos is lack of footage. The KBO sections were the hardest to find clips for, and the players who I'd love to do videos on are from the 80s and 90s, and that's really damn hard to find

[@ggbetz]

@@GaijinBaseball that is a blow to your format! Time to break out your art skills! I kid, but it is fun to hear their other team names and logos (and colours!). Thank you for even trying this! I definitely want to be prepared go to baseball games if and when I make it to these countries!

[@travisgerald9251]

"Wake up babe...new Gaijin Baseball vid dropped"

[@thetexanshurtme]

DON NEWCOMBE?!?!?! THAT WAS UNEXPECTED

[@vitameat]

He and Larry Doby went to the Dragons as a pair...both did okay but not great.

[@WC6]

Hell yes Jabari Blash batting stance

[@mikepastor.k6233]

Karim Garcia reminds me of Jaun Primo of the Fan'. As a Tigers' fan, the mannerisms, home runs, chains and overall machismo

[@muic4880]

This is really just trivial, while probably everyone thinks Sadaharu Oh was Japanese, he technically was Taiwanese. While he is as Japanese as anyone can be being born in and raised in Japan, but for the patriotism of his father he never changed his nationality despite the ease of which it would be for him to do so.

[@GaijinBaseball]

My reason is down to how foreign player designations work. Because Oh was born in Japan and went to a Japanese high school, he counts as Japanese under the current foreign player rules. Had Isao Harimoto or Tomoaki Kanemoto held the home runs records for their teams at any point, they would also be looped in to the Japanese section for the same reason, despite being ethnic Koreans. When it came to Japanese-Korean Jae-bak Song (Hiroshi Yoshimoto), who briefly tied the OB Bears' home run record, he wasn't considered a foreign player by the rules of the KBO, who officially didn't allow them at the time.

[@WowieZoë]

13:19 bro looks like Beat Takeshi

[@Austin_Niepołomice]

You cannot drop that bomb at the end and NOT make it a video! What evils now I go look.

[@Austin_Niepołomice]

Also I need to find a hat with that T-Rex logo lmao.

[@mentazmic]

Welcome Back!