Hideo Nomo’s retirement has been a long time coming, which probably dulls the effect a little bit. But there’s been a great deal of reaction — in fact, I’d say nearly every baseball outlet is at least reacting. It serves as testimony to his great career.
Patrick from NPB tracker has a nice post with […]

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Well, finally discovered by me anyway. I had no idea Doug Glanville had been writing for the New York Times for several months. You may remember (or not) that I made a big hoo-ha when Glanville penned a somewhat touching editorial for the NYT back in January. Glanville played several years for the Cubs, Phillies […]

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Jason Johnson, who hasn’t pitched in a big league game since Sept. 27, 2006, got the call from the L.A. Dodgers and threw three innings in tonight’s game at Arizona. The move was part of a best-of-EWC three way that sent Park Chan-ho back to the bullpen, Takashi Saito to the DL (possibly for the […]

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