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Archive for February, 2009

Japan sets final WBC roster

Roster
Pitchers: Daisuke Matsuzaka (Boston Red Sox); Hideaki Wakui (Seibu Lions); Satoshi Komatsu (Orix Buffaloes); Yu Darvish (Nippon Ham Fighters); Shunsuke Watanabe (Lotte Marines); Masahiro Tanaka (Rakuten Eagles); Hisashi Iwakuma (Rakuten Eagles); Takahiro Mahara (Softbank Hawks); Toshiya Sugiuchi (Softbank Hawks); Tetsuya Utsumi (Yomiuri Giants); Tetsuya Yamaguchi (Yomiuri Giants); Minoru Iwata (Hanshin Tigers); Kyuji Fujikawa (Hanshin Tigers).
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Japanese pitching trio impresses

Daisuke Matsuzaka, Yu Darvish, and Hisashi Iwakuma were impressive against live hitters while working out in preparation for the World Baseball Classic.
Darvish allowed one hit while striking out two, throwing 31 pitches against nine batters.
Read more on the story here.

Fighters’ Darvish pleased with conditioning at start of camp

Yu Darvish threw 125 pitches, then pronounced “I feel like I am already at the level of about halfway through spring training or almost where I would be at the end”.
Darvish arrived at camp on January 28th, ahead of his teammates, to begin preparations for the World Baseball Classic in March.
[Japan Times]