The NPB sorta has a parallel with the old Negro Leagues, the talent level may not be as deep across the board as the MLB but the NPB’s top stars are just as capable as the MLB’s top stars
It reminds me of MLB Japan All-Star Series. Ever since SJ has represented NPB, they have done so well vs MLB team. Perhaps it is because MLB team does not take it seriously but SJ is so well rounded. If possible, I recommend watching SJ live streams, right before 2023 WBC, there would be thousands of people watching live streams on CZcams where they will take batting practice, fielding drills, and pitching drills.
@RussellRussell-wy2om Wow you research their playing age 🤭 . Yes they are the hottest young stars but for Sasaki he's a little shy and can't eat other countries food 🤔 so I'm not sure about him still young tho
@RussellRussell-wy2om You do know that top professional in a huge company has nutritional doctors taking care of what they eat right ? He can't just eat anything he wants like in japan 😊 his small baseball team . Unless of course he goes somewhere small .
This is my second comment, sorry. I wanted to quickly mention that Matsui has a couple of issues that MLB teams may notice: he lacks velocity (max is around 145-150 kph, he is short for an MLB player (1.75 m), and while he is still only 28, he has 704 IP. With all this said, he has excellent control and loves to attack the low inside corner, I see him similar to what Koji Uehara was.
MLB makes up players around the world. Even so, it would be hard to imagine, as many Japanese star players prefer not to impede on their fellow countrymens' spot. This is why it is likely Yamamoto won't sign with the Mets, but rather the Yankees, since there's already a star pitcher in the Mets. Yamamoto already made it clear he wants to sign with a big market team. And, there isn't a market bigger than the Yankees.
Theirs a 20 year old or 19 year old from japan whos really good. Hes elite at 20 years old. MLB are already talking about him surprised you didnt bring him up. He wqs pitching in the wbc
Supposed to be America’s game. I don’t know, am I weird for wanting to see more Americans of either white or black descent playing our game than foreigners from Latin America or Asia? I applaud them for playing in their own lands but it just doesn’t seem right when our own sport has less and less American players
Japanese "YAKYU" baseball was derived uniquely from American-style baseball and took more than 100 years to achieve. The fact is that on this same planet, there is another baseball that exists in a different spirit than the US style. Of course, the roots of baseball are USA(or UK), but baseball that was exported to other countries from USA and took root there developed in a different way. This would be a fact. 2023 WBC was the day that ”Japanese YAKYU” defeated the home of ”American-style baseball”. Another way to describe this is to say that it was a battle between Japanese-style "ZEN-INｰYAKYU” baseball, which emphasizes "Teamwork among all players", and American-style baseball, which emphasizes "Individual power players", and it was a day when ZEN-INｰYAKYU (Teamwork-oriented organizational baseball) won. Japanese "YAKYU" baseball is different from American-style baseball. The facts of what is happening are outside the American way of thinking. First of all, the point is the fact that a team of players raised on Japanese-style YAKYU BASEBALL can beat a team raised on American-style BASEBALL in an official game. And why can that happen? It is not because there are many blessed players like Otani waiting in the wings in Japan. First, the Japanese baseball education system to bring up players is different from that in the United States. Second, the way to set goals in the game is different. In Japan, the way to win a baseball game is to concentrate on scoring as many runs as possible with the combined efforts of all players in the game, rather than on demonstrating the superhuman ability of an individual. In other words, the goal is to win games through the coordinated play, cooperative play, and role-sharing of the entire team rather than a single superstar. Rather than a collection of individual plays, they aim to play baseball in which all team members beat the opposing team in a game by the combined strength of the team and organizational skills of all team members. Third, to develop the players' physical and mental strength, based on their individual characteristics, they should voluntarily set individual improvement goals and work stoically and tirelessly toward the final goal from their youth. And they believe that doing so ascetically is a very valuable action. These three points in particular are different from the American style, or to put it another way, they may just be different points of importance or emphasis. If Ohtani had been educated and raised in the U.S., Shohei Ohtani might not exist in MLB today. Also, if an unknown American boy grew up as a baseball boy in Japan, he might become a player with a body like Otani's. It means that environmental factors and ways of thinking are more important than DNA. I suppose that these differences in baseball are the result of cultural differences that stem from the long history of differences in living standards and natural environments.
@@kaelthunderhoof5619 Japanese "YAKYU" baseball is different from American-style baseball. However, it is not a matter of Japan dominating MLB or not. The very idea of dominating or being dominated by others is the American conception. The facts of what is happening are outside the American way of thinking.
I’ve seen so many bad Japanese players over the years that were supposed to be good. Hediki Irabu, Kei igawa, dice k, kaz matsui, kaz ishii, kosuke fukodome, shogo Akayama, Fo every ichiro and ohtani. There are 5 over rated bums that should be in AAA.
You're right. But you can't put Irabu and Matsuzaka in the same category with the others. Irabu won 13 and 11 in 1998-1999, and Matsuzaka won 15 and 18 in 2007-2008 before he got injured. Actually, that's pretty good. Kazuhisa Ishii won 36 in 3 years with the Dodgers and you don't call that bad, either. Besides, if you compare the percentage of players who've made it to those who didn't, NPB players are doing pretty good, considering so many Americans believing NPB to be a shit hole. They also forget that most NPB players come to MLB after reaching their prime or even after that. You also forget that most NPB players coming to MLB get payed less than their ML counterparts with about the same ability. Only a portion of the players from Japan get a big enough contract that they actually deserve. And about the title "Japanese baseball is TAKING OVER MLB", well, it is an exaggeration; we all know it's not happening. Its just means that Americans, who took the Japanese so lightly, never saw this coming. MLB is still the No.1 league in the world, no doubt, so don't freak out every time someone says anything good about the NPB. But for every player you mentioned above, there were Hideo Nomo, Ichiro, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Hideki Matsui, Masahiro Tanaka, Hisashi Iwakuma, Hiroki Kuroda, Kohji Uehara, Takashi Saito, who were all pretty good. And players like Akinori Ohtsuka, Kenji Johjima, Masato Yoshii, Norichika Aoki, Tadahito Iguchi, So Taguchi, Akinori Iwamura, Hisanori Takahashi, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Shingo Takatsu, Hideki Okajima, etc., were above average, at least. There still are active players like Shohei Ohtani, Yuu Darvish, Kenta Maeda, Kohdai Senga, Masataka Yoshida, Seiya Suzuki, Yuusei Kikuchi, who are doing pretty well.
I don't think the Japanese Baseball is taking over MLB's, but it's quite sure a UNICORN named Shohei Ohtani has made it with his two-way play. There's NPB(Nippon Professional Baseball) in Japan and competitive players with high morale move to challenge MLB. But number of Japanese players remains almost less than 1%. FYI(1):Countries of origin, rosters from outside USA as of March 31, 2023; 269 of 945 are from other countries. Dom104, Ven62, Cub21, P.R.19, Mex15, Can10, Jap 8.... FYI(2):Match results of *WBC) Japan champ3 second0 USA : c1 s1 Dominica : c1 s0 P.R. : c0 s2 S.K. : c0 s1 *Olympics) Cuba : gold3 silver2 bronze0 USA : g1 s1 b2 Japan : g1 s1 b2 *WUBC) USA : g3 s2 b0 Cuba : g2 s0 b1 Japan : g1 s2 b2 Taiwan : g0 s2 b1 S.K. : g0 s0 b2
You realize there isn’t many Japanese in the mlb because they literally can’t go right? There is something called a posting rule from the Japanese league to prevent players from leaving until 25. Buddy be grateful the NPB has that rule because it’s pretty obvious if the DR has 104 players in the MLB japan would most likely have similar numbers…
@@bam6210 You'd better read again and again CAREFULLY what I wrote. I really wonder how comes your reading my comment led to this. I'm a japanese baseball fan and japanese MLB players' fan.
Japan's Baseball is almost on the level of MLB, a prime example of Japan winning the WBC 3 times in a decade.
Yeah, but WBC doesn't mean as much to MLB players, since they get paid a lot.
@@aznpikachu215 So what you mean is that NPB is leagues below MLB, right?
IMO Japan Baseball isn’t Triple A level anymore I think it’s closer to MLB than people think
Its an in between, 100% better than AAA
Yes, I think it's been considered 4-A for some time.
The NPB sorta has a parallel with the old Negro Leagues, the talent level may not be as deep across the board as the MLB but the NPB’s top stars are just as capable as the MLB’s top stars
Quadriple A, above triple A, but below MLB.
My honest unbiased opinion is that the top few teams in NPB would be 15-20th place in MLB. I think A’s would be an average team in the NPB.
It reminds me of MLB Japan All-Star Series. Ever since SJ has represented NPB, they have done so well vs MLB team. Perhaps it is because MLB team does not take it seriously but SJ is so well rounded. If possible, I recommend watching SJ live streams, right before 2023 WBC, there would be thousands of people watching live streams on CZcams where they will take batting practice, fielding drills, and pitching drills.
Munetaka Murakami and Roki Sasaki are absolutely superstar status.
Well 😅 those 2 need some time before posting😅
@@evanyong5871 yup. 2 years for Murakami. 4 years for Sasaki.
@RussellRussell-wy2om
Wow you research their playing age 🤭 . Yes they are the hottest young stars but for Sasaki he's a little shy and can't eat other countries food 🤔 so I'm not sure about him still young tho
@evanyong5871 well, he just has to go to a place where there are lots of Japanese restaurants. New York? LA? I think Philadelphia has a lot too
@RussellRussell-wy2om
You do know that top professional in a huge company has nutritional doctors taking care of what they eat right ? He can't just eat anything he wants like in japan 😊 his small baseball team . Unless of course he goes somewhere small .
Better title, Japanese’s baseball is TAKING OVER THE MLB
Not sure that's any better
I took ur title, goat 🔥
Yo that’s so kind of you to do that ty!@@PurelyBaseballYT
This is my second comment, sorry. I wanted to quickly mention that Matsui has a couple of issues that MLB teams may notice: he lacks velocity (max is around 145-150 kph, he is short for an MLB player (1.75 m), and while he is still only 28, he has 704 IP. With all this said, he has excellent control and loves to attack the low inside corner, I see him similar to what Koji Uehara was.
Imagine an all Japanese pitching staff in the MLB
MLB makes up players around the world. Even so, it would be hard to imagine, as many Japanese star players prefer not to impede on their fellow countrymens' spot. This is why it is likely Yamamoto won't sign with the Mets, but rather the Yankees, since there's already a star pitcher in the Mets. Yamamoto already made it clear he wants to sign with a big market team. And, there isn't a market bigger than the Yankees.
Theirs a 20 year old or 19 year old from japan whos really good. Hes elite at 20 years old. MLB are already talking about him surprised you didnt bring him up. He wqs pitching in the wbc
i doubt any American can be a two way star, too many distractions. It takes sooo much commitment to keep your body and mechanics in proper order
Shota Imanaga is a wild card. How well he does in the MLB is a question, but he could be a gem for a lower market team.
Supposed to be America’s game. I don’t know, am I weird for wanting to see more Americans of either white or black descent playing our game than foreigners from Latin America or Asia? I applaud them for playing in their own lands but it just doesn’t seem right when our own sport has less and less American players
Good for baseball...
Japanese "YAKYU" baseball was derived uniquely from American-style baseball and took more than 100 years to achieve.
The fact is that on this same planet, there is another baseball that exists in a different spirit than the US style.
Of course, the roots of baseball are USA(or UK), but baseball that was exported to other countries from USA and took root there developed in a different way. This would be a fact.
2023 WBC was the day that ”Japanese YAKYU” defeated the home of ”American-style baseball”.
Another way to describe this is to say that it was a battle between Japanese-style "ZEN-INｰYAKYU” baseball, which emphasizes "Teamwork among all players", and American-style baseball, which emphasizes "Individual power players", and it was a day when ZEN-INｰYAKYU (Teamwork-oriented organizational baseball) won.
Japanese "YAKYU" baseball is different from American-style baseball.
The facts of what is happening are outside the American way of thinking.
First of all, the point is the fact that a team of players raised on Japanese-style YAKYU BASEBALL can beat a team raised on American-style BASEBALL in an official game. And why can that happen?
It is not because there are many blessed players like Otani waiting in the wings in Japan.
First, the Japanese baseball education system to bring up players is different from that in the United States.
Second, the way to set goals in the game is different.
In Japan, the way to win a baseball game is to concentrate on scoring as many runs as possible with the combined efforts of all players in the game, rather than on demonstrating the superhuman ability of an individual.
In other words, the goal is to win games through the coordinated play, cooperative play, and role-sharing of the entire team rather than a single superstar.
Rather than a collection of individual plays, they aim to play baseball in which all team members beat the opposing team in a game by the combined strength of the team and organizational skills of all team members.
Third, to develop the players' physical and mental strength, based on their individual characteristics, they should voluntarily set individual improvement goals and work stoically and tirelessly toward the final goal from their youth.
And they believe that doing so ascetically is a very valuable action.
These three points in particular are different from the American style, or to put it another way, they may just be different points of importance or emphasis.
If Ohtani had been educated and raised in the U.S., Shohei Ohtani might not exist in MLB today. Also, if an unknown American boy grew up as a baseball boy in Japan, he might become a player with a body like Otani's.
It means that environmental factors and ways of thinking are more important than DNA.
I suppose that these differences in baseball are the result of cultural differences that stem from the long history of differences in living standards and natural environments.
Yeah, Japan baseball tends to make players all rounder. You need to hit and also be able to run bases.
@@kaelthunderhoof5619
Japanese "YAKYU" baseball is different from American-style baseball.
However, it is not a matter of Japan dominating MLB or not.
The very idea of dominating or being dominated by others is the American conception.
The facts of what is happening are outside the American way of thinking.
They have good players but not the majority!
There too late already Cuba got there first.
Nobody cares about baseball. They've had to speed up a boring sport with new rules and a DH as opposed to pitchers hitting. Next!
That’s why your commenting.
I’ve seen so many bad Japanese players over the years that were supposed to be good. Hediki Irabu, Kei igawa, dice k, kaz matsui, kaz ishii, kosuke fukodome, shogo Akayama,
Fo every ichiro and ohtani. There are 5 over rated bums that should be in AAA.
You're right. But you can't put Irabu and Matsuzaka in the same category with the others. Irabu won 13 and 11 in 1998-1999, and Matsuzaka won 15 and 18 in 2007-2008 before he got injured. Actually, that's pretty good. Kazuhisa Ishii won 36 in 3 years with the Dodgers and you don't call that bad, either.
Besides, if you compare the percentage of players who've made it to those who didn't, NPB players are doing pretty good, considering so many Americans believing NPB to be a shit hole.
They also forget that most NPB players come to MLB after reaching their prime or even after that. You also forget that most NPB players coming to MLB get payed less than their ML counterparts with about the same ability. Only a portion of the players from Japan get a big enough contract that they actually deserve.
And about the title "Japanese baseball is TAKING OVER MLB", well, it is an exaggeration; we all know it's not happening. Its just means that Americans, who took the Japanese so lightly, never saw this coming. MLB is still the No.1 league in the world, no doubt, so don't freak out every time someone says anything good about the NPB.
But for every player you mentioned above, there were Hideo Nomo, Ichiro, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Hideki Matsui, Masahiro Tanaka, Hisashi Iwakuma, Hiroki Kuroda, Kohji Uehara, Takashi Saito, who were all pretty good. And players like Akinori Ohtsuka, Kenji Johjima, Masato Yoshii, Norichika Aoki, Tadahito Iguchi, So Taguchi, Akinori Iwamura, Hisanori Takahashi, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Shingo Takatsu, Hideki Okajima, etc., were above average, at least. There still are active players like Shohei Ohtani, Yuu Darvish, Kenta Maeda, Kohdai Senga, Masataka Yoshida, Seiya Suzuki, Yuusei Kikuchi, who are doing pretty well.
a player in japan isnt japan changing the mlb. singular players arent changing the entire league
it isn't just one player, there have been many stars from japan with more sure to come
Currently, they’re making a large impact on the game
Ohtani opened the minds of teams to consider two way players and the MLB substitution rules were changed to accommodate a DH/pitcher because of him.
I don't think the Japanese Baseball is taking over MLB's, but it's quite sure a UNICORN named Shohei Ohtani has made it with his two-way play.
There's NPB(Nippon Professional Baseball) in Japan and competitive players with high morale move to challenge MLB. But number of Japanese players remains almost less than 1%.
FYI(1):Countries of origin, rosters from outside USA as of March 31, 2023;
269 of 945 are from other countries. Dom104, Ven62, Cub21, P.R.19, Mex15, Can10, Jap 8....
FYI(2):Match results of
*WBC)
Japan champ3 second0
USA : c1 s1
Dominica : c1 s0
P.R. : c0 s2
S.K. : c0 s1
*Olympics)
Cuba : gold3 silver2 bronze0
USA : g1 s1 b2
Japan : g1 s1 b2
*WUBC)
USA : g3 s2 b0
Cuba : g2 s0 b1
Japan : g1 s2 b2
Taiwan : g0 s2 b1
S.K. : g0 s0 b2
You realize there isn’t many Japanese in the mlb because they literally can’t go right? There is something called a posting rule from the Japanese league to prevent players from leaving until 25. Buddy be grateful the NPB has that rule because it’s pretty obvious if the DR has 104 players in the MLB japan would most likely have similar numbers…
@@bam6210 You'd better read again and again CAREFULLY what I wrote. I really wonder how comes your reading my comment led to this. I'm a japanese baseball fan and japanese MLB players' fan.