November 17, 2008
Sidearming knuckleballer becomes first woman drafted into Japanese professional baseball.
Japanese pitchers that have come to the US do seem to have Japanese batting statistics, so I'm going to say that Japanese baseball uses the correct, NL and pre-1971 rules about the pitcher batting.
Another barrier is broken, as two winners of an Indian reality TV show are signed to minor-league contracts:
The contest was sponsored by a California sports management company that believed it could locate major league-worthy arms in a country of more than 1 billion. After working extensively with Southern California pitching coach Tom House since May, the pitchers staged a tryout in Tempe, Ariz., on Nov. 6 that was attended by 30 major league scouts.
Also enjoyed hearing that
Patel and Singh are learning English, most of which they have picked up from watching ESPN's Baseball Tonight and by taking online classes.
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Do you think the Japan league uses the NL or AL batting rules? I wonder which one she would prefer?
posted by natedogg at 01:32PM CST on November 18