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Great job Chinese Taipei! Japan fought hard and it only took one loss to give them silver.

There must definitely be some American scouts watching this channel.

Such a great story. I saw the BayStars beat Yomiuri in Yokohama last year. The atmosphere was incredible. I became a BayStars fan that night. This is an incredible result! Great job. Go BayStars!

Him and Munetaka Murakami will post in 2025 and be future Dodgers. Book it.

He didn't play enough games a season to play as a mlb starting pitcher regularly physically I don't think he will stay healthy unless he fills out physically.

I can only hope he doesn't go to the Dodgers. I hope he picks either the Padres or the Cubs.

is the lottery part rigged though?

Fuck!

If he develops well, he could be the next 3000 hitter or maybe the 1st 500HR hitter from Asia. I think Shohei could have 3000 hits and 500 Homers if he went with his original plan to bypass the NPB and go straight to the Majors. Maybe he never throws a single pitch, like the higher ups at Hokkaido NHF warned him about, but he could definitely play RF and have a successful career nonetheless and he probably doesn’t have to miss a lot of games due to TJ surgery.

This one deserves a more deep dive. Didn't know that Hiroshima Carp went to a historic collapse out of the wildcard then the series... I bet this one going to be an hour of deep dive especially coming off from having Japanese fans seeing Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto won the World Series before the final game of Japan Series.

Just found your channel and loving the videos I've watched. Wondering are you going to do a draft review like you did last year? Keep it up man!

This longtime fan of baseball EVERYWHERE says: "Thanks so much for a well done video." I've been wanting to attend a Japanese baseball game since the early 80's.

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In japan they name their teams after corporations instead of their region?

In an just world, Ohtani Sasaki Yamamoto ect stay in Japan and it's American baseball stars coming to Japan to play Baseball. Because Japan is the true baseball country now (more than the US) and has the best baseball market with the best fans (Again Americans pefer Padded Rugby more than Baseball now). But, The world isn't fair. Money rules everything. And the Americans have the money.

Marines GM is totally sucked. Professional baseball is nothing but business. They have made catastrophic damage to NPB imo. In addition, current posting system had already been made valid when Sasaki was picked. So he understood it and didn’t take a risk like Hyun-seok Jung who joined LAD farming system right after high school. That’s why some NPB fans don’t celebrate Sasaki’s departure.

Munetaka Murakami ???????????? Roki Sasaki???????

Imma be real with you, I almost would rather see him on the Red Sox than on the Dodgers at this point. I don't want the Dodgers to become a club version of the Japanese national team. I'm still excited that Sasaki is finally coming to MLB, even with all the weird circumstances, but I don't want the Dodgers to just snap up the best players in Japan before anyone else even has a chance to negotiate

I don't think Sasaki is giving up that much money by going to MLB early. After he accrues 3 years of MLB service at minimum wage, he'll be eligible for arbitration and many teams will sign players to long term contracts year 4+ buying out their arbitration years. So if he waited to leave NPB after 25 years old, he would get his big contract just one year earlier and everything is health contingent anyways.

One Nippon series as the Taiyo Whales, one Nippon Series as the Yokohama Baystars, one Nippon Series as the Yokohama DeNA Baystars.

Honestly, as a dodger fan who will likely land sasaki, this is kinda unfortunate for japanese fans. I feel like posting this early is unfair.

Chiba fan here, its annoying for Roki Sasaki to leave us this early, but I recognise that he really wants to head to the majors.

Are there any NPB fantasy baseball leagues out there?

Thank you for the great content. All I've heard so far about the news are negative reactions. However, yours offered a different take and more an in-depth look to the goings behind the scenes. Now, speaking as a Padres fan, do you think Sasaki's relationship with Darvish will help with the negotiation? Also, does the recently pulled offer from the overage Dominican prospect help the Padres in offering a higher deal. Thank you so much again!

I think this will make changes in npb (hopefully) like a compensation draft pick

IPO

Those that are saying he's selfish will also be the first ones cheering for him when he gets his first start as the #3 or #4 starter for the Dodgers behind Ohtani, Yamamoto and maybe Glasnow. Oh, he's not a Dodger yet. Just a matter of time.⏰

Jim's report feels rather forced given the date he signed was 11/30/2019, which is relatively normal for any rookie that is drafted in the late October draft. The team and player have all the way until the end of next March to come to an agreement. For Ohtani's case, his negotiations lasted until December, and he only signed the contract on December 25th, after multiple meetings with the team where they brought various presentation documents showing why he should start his career with Nippon Ham. Roki had never voiced his desire to directly go to the majors unlike Ohtani before the draft, and there were never any reports saying that Roki had used the leverage of MLB org's offers during the initial negotiations. Where I suspect some sort of clause was added is during last offseason where he didn't renew his contract until late January, right before spring training, which is extremely rare in NPB. It is rumored that his mom set up a sporting management company partnering with Dentsu - a notorious marketing agency, and I wouldn't be surprised if that party representing Roki did some very fishy business to force Lotte's hands. Crazy speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lotte is getting some under the table money from Dentsu to expediate the posting process, given Dentsu would make so much more representing Sasaki as a young MLB star. Could also be the case of Dentsu holding some sort of connection with Lotte's sponsors and threatening from that end. Either way it is pretty obvious Lotte was coerced into this, so something needs to be done on the NPB level to never let this happen again.

The writing's on the wall. Remember when he immediately asked to be posted after Yamamoto found a team?

HGH does wonders

I thought he had a 0% chance of going to MLB. Now I Just hope he signs with the Padres.

I'm all about the conspiracy theory that dentsu's shadowy influence is somewhat at play here

why goliath vs goliath? goliath lost the fight lol.

I haven’t seen betting odds, but I imagine that you might as well not bet on anyone else but the Dodgers. I called it last year: when Ohtani signed with the Dodgers, they became the NPB player’s favored team. No NPB player will go anywhere else in MLB now. They’ll all go to LA to bask in Ohtani’s glory.

Part of the problem with npb talent increasing and being showcased on the world stage is MLB teams are understanding how good npb players are.

He will be missed in Chiba. Thanks for covering NPB all this year!

As far as I know, a Japanese-born player who goes straight to MLB to play baseball cannot immediately join NPB once they retire from or leave MLB as per NPB rule.

I pray he chooses the Jays, he could be our #1 for years to come and have all of Canada with him

Sad day for baseball all around. NPB is a proud league and shouldn’t just become a feeder league for the Dodgers specifically. I as a Yankees fan have little room to be upset at Dodgers but man if you are a fan of every other team how can you feel as though things are fair? Or that your team has a legit shot to win anything at all? Sad for those fans. Sad for Japan and Chiba Lotte

Surprised you didn't dive into the sponsorship aspects

Why did the owner make this decision even though it was not profitable for Lotte?

The value of the salary being tied as a percentage to the fee the team gets still confuses me TBH. Buffaloes got a nice fee, but if Yamamoto is worth 300 million, they should have got even more. Both the players contract and the fee for the contract should be on the table for negotiation like in Soccer/Football.

Sad for NPB fans, but it is exciting to see how he does against MLB hitters full time.

Do you remember him mentioning an interest in going to the MLB early in his career though? I vaguely recall seeing an interview from his first or second year in the NPB, where he was asked about playing abroad in the future. He seemed uncertain about whether he could handle the cultural differences and didn’t really express a strong intention at that time.

He should have waited until he was 25. Now he wont be able to make real money in MLB until he turns 29 because MLB players need 6 years before they can become Free Agents.

I still don't know how to feel about this move, it just feels like the only reason he was posted now was simply because the Dodgers won the world series and it feels inevitable that he will join that team... it also makes NPB look like a minor league farming system to most as well and that makes me sick to my core. But in the end I know that I will hope that the talent Sasaki has will translate well overseas.

How do u get footage of these games