By: Amiao
Japanese pitchers are conditioned differently. Typically starters throw thousands of pitches during spring training. A bullpen session can be more than 200 pitches. I have heard 300 pitches bullpens...
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While there could be an argument that Daisuke Matsuzaka was overused in NPB he was quite healthy during his NPB period and started getting injured more in MLB. Sure it could be said that Seibu knew...
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I disagree with your last paragraph. While athletes appear to be better conditioned, it’s smoke and mirrors. No matter how much bigger, stronger and faster athletes get, they are still soft. The...
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The soccer conditioning thing is not a Japanese thing. Troussier was responsible for instituting a more demanding style of conditioning and play that Okada is using now. Hiddink was widely credited...
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Matsuzaka was usually healthy during his NPB career, but the team did abuse his arm in ’02 by having him come back to pitch too early from arm trouble in the Japan Series, and his performance was very...
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Seibu Lions may have abused his arm during his time there but why is the problem surfacing after he went to MLB? Is it a coincident that his arm abuse from Lions surfaced at the same time as his move...
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Fullgatsu: Matsuzaka was not completely healthy at the end of the ’08 season. The RedSox had concerns about his shoulder and gave him what they thought was a good conditioning program to follow in the...
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I would agree that japanese pitchers probably wouldn’t be able to throw as many pitchers as they do in NPB with a 162 schedule and 5-man rotation. I would also say that the pitch counts in japan tend...
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While athletes appear to be better conditioned, it’s smoke and mirrors. [1] Compared to what/who? [2] Prove it. The food we eat and the environment we live in are weaking us. I thought our food had...
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fullgatsu: My opinion after watching the game for so many years in both countries is that finding a happy medium for both would be good. The increased usage of relievers and decreased innings/CGs has...
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