I’ve been reading Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-up Bird Chronicle for the first time in about a decade. I’ve mentioned before the title was in part the inspiration for EWC. Actually, we’d toyed with the idea of simply calling it East, and at one point there was the idea of calling it Pacific Rim Sports. [...]
Murakami On Baseball
April 24th, 2008 · 7 Comments
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Kosuke Fukudome’s Hot Start and How He’s Making Chicago a Classy Place
April 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments
John Kalk, who’s one of the kings of pitch f/x analysis on his own site has done a guest post at rotoauthority analysing Fukudome’s nice start. The man is sporting a .396 BABIP these days, which is pretty amazing and unsustainable, but as Kalk diagnoses, Kosuke doesn’t swing at many bad balls. There are a [...]
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