There goes my streak of not making a terrible pun-oriented headline here at TDG. If you are disgusted by the pun, you can leave the rest of this article behind and move on. But if you’re looking for a potential cheap closing option, you may want to continue reading. Proven

I’ve introduced 30 best NPB players who have chances to play in the big leagues in the near or distant future. In this post I’m going to dig deeper into the NPB mine, but this time for non-Japanese players. There are a number of former minor league journeymen, washed up

This is the 3rd and final piece of my 3-part NPB prospect rankings for the 2015 season. Most of guys in this tier are 6-8 years away from producing at the MLB level, or even some of them will never come over to the States. A post about these players

Here I continue counting up my rankings further more. If you missed last week, here are top 5. 6) Yoshio Itoi, OF, Orix Buffaloes (Age 33) I have no doubt that he has all the tools that would play well at the MLB level: raw power that stands out among Japanese

Congratulations on surviving another off-season. We’re just over a couple of weeks away from the new season. And better yet, NPB opening day is a mere 5 days away. Here at TDG, I ranked 30 NPB players to watch for for the coming season. The rankings are based on 1)

The Rangers whiffed terribly in the first several rounds in the loaded 2011 draft. Either of their first and supplemental rounds picks, Kevin Matthews and Zach Cone, hasn’t made it out of high-A ball after 3 and a half seasons. However, they hit the jackpot in later rounds in MLB

People no longer spend offseason staring out the window and waiting for baseball. Nowadays, we spend winter talking about projection systems, top prospect rankings, guys in BSOHL, and which breakout players from the previous season will come back down to earth. Danny Santana has been a lightning rod of those

On Thursday October 23rd, the annual NPB first draft took place. It’s been 2 months since the event, but not much of information in the language you can understand is available, I take a look at it here at TDG. Among many things about the NPB draft that would look

It’s been a week and a half since Salvador Perez popped out to Pablo Sandoval and brought us into the cold, miserable winter of no baseball. It’s time of year where we have to fill the baseball voids in our minds with stove league talk or other sports like football,