One question I had going into the 2008 season was whether Trey Hillman would attempt to bring a Japanese baseball style of managing back to America. And if he did, how would the modern American ballplayer take to it?
Looks like my question might have been asnwered:
It didn’t matter Thursday that Ryan Shealy had just hit […]

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My guess is that this tournament won’t be the most exciting thing in the world. Korea (who just beat South Africa 5-0) is clearly the class of the group, which leaves Taiwan, Australia, Mexico and Canada duking it out for the second and third Olympic invites.
Taiwan’s been playing pretty badly as of late and they have […]

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Taking some info from a Korea Beat post, True Stories of Korean Baseball has an interesting breakdown of how much each team spent per win during 2007.
Samsung(6.2 billion) = 97.3 million per win
Hanhwa (4.6 billion) = 68.3 million per win
Kia (3.5 billion) = 69.75 million per win
Doosan (2.8 billion) = 40.58 million per win
SK (4.02 billion) = 53.2 million […]

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