The practice games are over and the regular season is getting started this Friday, June 19. Let’s take a look at how Our Marines will be facing this abbreviated, fan-less, 120 game 2020 season, starting with the pitchers. Opening Day Starting Rotation Ayumu Ishikawa – 8-5, 3.64 ERA, 1.32 WHIP in 2019 (32, 7th year) …
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Season Preview – We Got Predictions!
Steve PL Predictions 1. Softbank 2. Seibu 3. Rakuten 4. Lotte 5. Ham 6. Buffaloes Overall, I don’t have any strong feelings about the team this year, but I will say this…I think Rakuten got the better end of all the exchanges between them and Lotte. After watching Wakui several times in the practice games, I’m convinced he’s …
Introducing Your 2018 Lotte All-Stars
On Monday, NPB released the final rosters for the All-Star games next week in Kyocera Dome (7/13) and Kumamoto (7/14). As I have mentioned over the past few weeks, many players are putting up strong numbers in the first half. However, no members of Our Marines made the cut in either the fan voting (for …