“I think there’s still an immense amount of pressure from the high school baseball coaches to stay,” noted ... (The frustration) is more from the NPB teams’ perspective and the older ...

He’s now the pitching coach for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, Ohtani’s old team. The third, pitcher Junichi Tazawa, was a late bloomer who, after going undrafted in the NPB, signed with an ...

His high school coach ... with one of several teams which pursued his services, including the Dodgers. Instead, he signed with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of the NPB, which agreed to let ...

“I love how Japanese baseball is so much more fundamentally pure,” said Shimizu, who spent many years as a youth baseball coach ... ambitions — the 12-team NPB is not moving with nearly ...

He was also into swimming and could have been on the Olympic team according to his baseball coach. He learned to play ... the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) after they drafted him in the ...

who joined the team ahead of the match between the Samsung Lions and the LG Twins at Lions Park in Daegu on the 10th, looked at the fielders' movements with keen eyes. Coach Imae played for NPB ...

The six-time NPB All-Star is currently on pace ... racing BMX at his local Rockford BMX track or coaching his local youth travel baseball team.