It was good seeing former Yomiuri Giants third baseman and manager Shigeo Nagashima visiting the team's spring training camp in Miyazaki earlier this month. He just turned 81 this past week and is visibly handicapped by a stroke suffered in 2004 that limits movement ...
Samurai Japan's quest to reclaim the World Baseball Classic title will begin in the nation's capital. Tokyo was announced as a host for both rounds of the Asian region of the 2017 World Baseball Classic during a news conference at the NPB Commissioner's office on ...
Sometimes in life we are in the right place at the right time. Saturday night was one of these cases for Ice Time. What Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu did that evening at Big Hat was nothing short of incredible. It was the perfect meshing of athleticism ...
Not sure what to think about the Yomiuri Giants choosing Yoshinobu Takahashi as the team's new manager. He is just 40 and did not even get a chance to retire as an active player before being selected to lead the club as its field ...
The Yomiuri Giants on Friday appointed Yoshinobu Takahashi as the Central League club's new manager. The move sees the 40-year-old Takahashi call time on a playing career that saw him doubling up as an outfielder and batting coach for the Giants. "I will move forward with ...
Yomiuri Giants player-coach Yoshinobu Takahashi said Monday he has been asked to manage the storied Central League club. "As a player, I was putting myself into a mode of next season, so it came as quite a surprise," said the 40-year-old Takahashi, who indicated he ...
Continuity in Japanese dugouts took a hit when now-former Yomiuri Giants manager Tatsunori Hara sat down for his retirement news conference on Monday. Hara had been in charge of the Giants since 2006 and was easily the most experienced manager in Japan. Now that the ...
Other than the timing, the news of Tatsunori Hara's decision to step down as manager of the Yomiuri Giants didn't exactly come out of left field. For one, there had been rumblings that this season might be Hara's last since at least September. So it ...
The Yomiuri Giants appear to be in no hurry to name their next manager following Tatsunori Hara's sudden announcement on Saturday night that he would resign, a team source said. The source, speaking Sunday, one day before Hara was to meet with the club's supreme ...
Yomiuri Giants skipper Tatsunori Hara says he will step down following his team's exit from the Central League playoffs. Hara's job had been reportedly in jeopardy should the Giants fall short of winning a fourth straight CL pennant this year. Hara, who was in his ...
A day after the Yomiuri Giants announced that two of their pitchers have been suspended for gambling on baseball games, the club began questioning its players and staff, beginning with manager Tatsunori Hara and his coaching staff. With the Giants scheduled to host the first ...
In a series that is ostensibly about the best and most popular players in Nippon Professional Baseball, Central League manager Tatsunori Hara pulled an unusual move on Thursday, naming pinch runner Takahiro Suzuki to his squad. While fans have occasionally voted popular players to the ...
