“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 ...

“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 ...

They also promoted Brandon Mann from the position of pitching strategist to bullpen coach. Both moves were reported by Isaac Azout of Fish On First. The team has ... time in NPB, the CPBL, the ...