Simon Currie has his new NPB Power Rankings up hot off the big Hanshin/Chunichi split. He’s also got some info at the bottom pertaining to the demotion of Koji Uehara. Pretty soon the Giants are going to have a pretty good team down there.
1. Hanshin Tigers (1) 18-6-1 .750
Keeps on going strong, splitting the series against […]

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I suppose this will be the last Cubs signing from Korea that I haven’t seen play much first-hand. I don’t even have a lot to report, but I at least wanted to acknowledge his signing and pass along some of what I’ve heard since it’s clearly been big news in my part of the world. […]

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I’ve got all this great baseball stuff stuck up in my brain, yet the post I’ve been the most excited to write is about this 80-year-old Japanese robot named Gakutensoku.
Gakutensoku was built in 1928 by biologist Makoto Nishimura, and first exhibited in Kyoto as part of the formal celebration of the ascension of Showa Emperor […]

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