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Info
Links- Listing of everything Jim's provided this site
on Japanese baseball, including information about specific managers and players.
New2009
Review of NPB Free Agents, Posted Players, and Players to Watch
Japan's
Top Players - Analysis of the best Japanese baseball players
ever with annotated rankings.
The
Rating System - Description of the systems used to rate Japan's
top players.
All Decade
Teams
Modern
Pitchers and the Japanese Hall of Fame
New Pitcher
Projection Method
The
List - Rank ordered list of the greatest Japanese players by
position.
Japan's
Most Successful Managers
All-Time
Foreign Born Team
Japan's
Franchise All-Star Teams
Japanese
Baseball Dynasties
Most
Dominant/Most Dominated Teams in Japanese Baseball History
Japan's
Greatest Teams - the sequel.
Manager's
All-Stars
Franchise
Sustained Success and Futility Snapshots (updated thru 2003)
Why
Haven’t We Had More Japanese Players in the Majors?
What were
the great pennant races in Japan?
2008
Review of NPB Free Agents, Posted Players, and Players to Watch
2007
Review of NPB Free Agents, Posted Players, and Players to Watch
2006
Review of NPB Free Agents, Posted Players, and Players to Watch
2005
Review of NPB Free Agents, Posted Players, and Players to Watch
Japanese
Possibilities for the MLB in 2004
Japanese
Possibilities for the MLB in 2003
Japanese
Career of Masanori Murakami
Miscellaneous
Player Comments
Japanese
Baseball before 1945
How
Close is Ichiro to Cooperstown?
MLB
EQUIVALENTS OF NPB COOPERSTOWN CANDIDATES' TOP SEASONS
MLB
EQUIVALENTS OF TOP NPB PERFORMANCES
Japanese
Players: What's Best for Cooperstown?
Comparing
Negro League All-Timers to Japanese All-timers
~ Sadaharu Oh//Japanese Players and Cooperstown ~
Sadaharu
Oh and Cooperstown: Part I (revised, 2017)
Sadaharu
Oh and Cooperstown: Part II (revied 2017)
Jim Albright on Updates to the NPB Player Projectoins to MLB
Fun with
Projections
Comparing
Oh to HOFers
Comparing
Oh to Top HOF Candidates
How
Many Homers Would Oh Have Hit In the
Majors?HR Break
Down
Was Oh
Better than Projection?
Who Else
from the NPB Might be Worthy of Cooperstown?
Further
Examination of Qualifications of NPB Stars for
CooperstownSummarized
Cases for Cooperstown of Five Great NPB Position
PlayersSummarized
Cases for Cooperstown of Five Great NPB
PitchersReexamination
of Cases for Cooperstown of pre-1945 NPB Pitchers
CUBAN BASEBALL
Who
Have Been the Top Players in Cuba in the Castro Era?
Stuff at my other home
Albright's Musings collects posts of mine at Baseball-Fever.com
Thousands of articles!
Jim Albright /
the
japanese insider
About the Author
I am a
40-something year old who has always been a sports fan who had a way with
numbers. When Bill James published his books in the 1980's, I found a way
to combine those aspects of my life. It was difficult to make progress until
I got a computer, but once APBA released its electronic encyclopedia, I was
off and running. The internet has provided a means to share the findings
I have made to others who share my interests. My interests in this area grew
to the "forgotten" (at least by modern American fans) players and teams-the
Negro Leagues, the 19th century, and Japan. I obtained Dan Johnson's book,
and while it had a wealth of information, it didn't have walk data or career
listings. I chased down a copy of the 1998 Japanese encyclopedia and, with
the help of Johnson's book, unlocked much of the information it has to offer.
I live on the East Coast, have never been to Japan, and read only the limited
amount of Japanese I have learned from my work with the encyclopedia. In
one way, it limits my perspective, to be sure, but in another, I am rather
free of any hype or badmouthing that may be done about Japan's players. I
am free to look at the record with an unbiased eye, and see what I can there.
I have done all-star teams for each franchise for APBA, which can be found at APBA Japanese Baseball site.
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