Baseball is a funny sport sometimes in that no one ever seems content to live in the present.
The history of the game is revered and harkened back to on an almost daily basis, while scouts constantly patrol dusty high-school fields in search of the player who will be the star of the future.
It's this convergence of past and future that is presently threatening to wash away Masataka Nashida's tenure with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.