Or so says Fox’s Ken Rosenthal, who is using Akinori Iwamura’s playoff success as a reason to leap on top of the dogpile on Kosuke Fukudome in the article Unlike other imports, Iwamura is a keeper
The diverging fortunes of Iwamura and Fukudome only reinforce an emerging truth: Major-league teams will need to be more careful [...]

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Fret not Aaron, there’s always Reon Kadena bouncing up and down gleefully on a giant rubber ball (NSFW).

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It’s only through two games, but Akinori Iwamura is arguably the Rays MVP in the team’s series versus the White Sox. Game one saw him go 2 for 4 with a triple, good for a total .188 win probability added. Game 2’s home run was obviously gigantic, and was good for a total .213 [...]

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I can’t bring myself to do a final edition of the KBO rankings. SK was No. 1 wire to wire, and the bottom two teams — LG and Woori — were pretty set in stone early on as well. Lotte has been up and down during the season, but will enter the playoffs for the [...]

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I guess I’m such a cynic at this point I read something like this and just wonder how people come to spend so much time on learning something like high wire walking that they actually become good at it. I suppose, for those who do spend their lives learning such things, it’s good they have [...]

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