Daily Archives: April 1, 2011

Blast from the past: Kaz Matsui in the news

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: April 1, 2011

Something that Atlanta Braves’ slugger did caused a past JapaneseBallPlayers name to appear on the news today. From Heyward Has a Blast on Opening Day on Wall Street Journal by Jared Diamond. Opening Day is quickly becoming Jason Heyward’s favorite day. After hitting a home run in the first at-bat of his career last season, [...]

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How will Tsuyoshi Nishioka of Minnesota Twins do?

By Daigo Fujiwara | Published: April 1, 2011
Tsuyoshi Nishioka and manager Ron Gardenhire (AP)

Twins’ rookie second baseman, Tsuyoshi Nishioka just had really good spring. He played in 20 games and had 58 at-bats. He had 20 hits, 2 of them doubles and 1 of them triple, for .345 batting average. Stole 3 bases, and caught once (.750 success). He had 2 walks (.367 OBP) and only struck out [...]

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