Earlier this season Seibu Lions second baseman Yasuyuki Kataoka donned a Spiderman mask and entertained the crowd before his hero interview after hitting a "sayonara" home run off Hokkaido Nippon Ham's Yu Darvish.
It's the type of thing one wouldn't expect to see from a Seibu player, and first-year manager Hisanobu Watanabe probably wouldn't have it any other way.
One of four new managers in Japanese baseball this season, Watanabe has set the standard for the new blood in the dugouts around the NPB.