Atsuya Furuta
Atsuya Furuta
Atsuya Furutais a Japanese former baseball player and player-manager for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows professional baseball club in the Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Drafted in the 2nd round in 1990, Furuta became a leader for the Swallows as a catcher and became the first player-manager in Japanese baseball in 29 years, since Katsuya Nomura in 1977. In addition to his skills on the field, he is also known for leading a successful two-day strike in 2004 as the head...
balanced batting fans far favor game guys hit ideal last lure obvious offensive players punch
It's pretty obvious that we lacked offensive punch last season. Even more than pitching, part of the lure of the game is in batting. My ideal is to have a more balanced team. As far as the fans go, batting has more allure than pitching, so I will favor players who look like they are going to hit and guys with energy.
call central close closest man might odd perhaps
This is the way things are done in the Central League. It was a close call. It is perhaps odd that they would overturn the call of the man closest to the play. But who knows, it might go my way another time.
battle chance games lose year
We've had a lot of games this year that we had no chance to win, so you can't lose games like this where you battle and scrape.