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Sunday, March 31, 2024

2024 Lions Digest: Imai dominates Opening Day

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The Saitama Seibu Lions took the Opening Day weekend series in Sendai against the Rakuten Eagles. === Game 1: Tatsuya Imai vs Takahisa Hayak...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Lions can go as far as the rotation takes them

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  The Saitama Seibu Lions enter the 2024 season with high personal expectations. However, most pundits don't see an A-class finish given...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Imanaga won't need to be a star with Cubs

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  Shota Imanaga signed with the Chicago Cubs in January as one of many players coming over from NPB to MLB.  Despite having a high fanfare ...
Sunday, February 4, 2024

Yamamoto will need to handle spotlight

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  === Yoshinobu Yamamoto joins the Los Angeles Dodgers with sky high expectations. Not only from his success in Japan, but by having the hig...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Matsui's wait to MLB is rewarded

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  Yuki Matsui took the long way to MLB.  Instead of early domination and a posting, he had to wait for nine years of service time to reach i...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

One season later: Progress Report on 2022 Seibu Lions Draft Class

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  === We conclude our Seibu Lions draft series dating back to 2014 with a brief look at the 2022 Draft Class. Like the last few, this is a p...
Friday, January 26, 2024

Two seasons later: Progress Report on 2021 Lions draft

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  === As we move to more recent draft classes, none of these grades are written in stone with the exception of two players who are no longer...