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hiroshima-carp The Hiroshima Carp came away from the NPB Japanese baseball draft the hands down winners on Thursday. After swiping up Ren Nakata last year from hometown Koryo High School, the Carp added to their young pitching corps by snagging Takeru Imamura from Seiho High School with their ...
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Minding the Hot Stove: Scouting Hisanori Takahashi
MLB Fantasy Prospects — ... MLBFP knows our readers are always looking for the inside track on any potential sleepers…especially starting pitchers. So yours truly dug deep and reached out to Brandon Siefken, who runs a site called Japan Baseball News, along with his partner, Bob Bavasi. If the Bavasi name sounds familiar, it should. The Bavasi family has strong ties to MLB: ...

Guest Post: Minding the Hot Stove-Scouting Hisanori Takahashi
FakeTeams — ... MLBFP knows our readers are always looking for the inside track on any potential sleepers…especially starting pitchers. So yours truly dug deep and reached out to Brandon Siefken, who runs a site called Japan Baseball News, along with his partner, Bob Bavasi. If the Bavasi name sounds familiar, it should. The Bavasi family has strong ties to MLB: ...

Scouting Report: Ryota Igarashi (RP, New York Mets)
MLB Fantasy Prospects — ... Wow! Two years is a long time to pine for a middle relief pitcher, Omar. Is Ryota worth the wait? To find out, we checked in with our go-to Japanese baseball expert, Brandon Siefken from Japan Baseball News: ...

Hisanori Takahashi (SP, Free Agent, Japan) Linked to Orioles, Dodgers, Mets, Red Sox and Giants
MLB Fantasy Prospects — ... MLBFP’s Japanese Baseball correspondent, Brandon Siefken of Japan Baseball News, just emailed me some insider information as to why Takahashi has yet to sign. The word is that he is insisting on being a starter. Most MLB scouts, Siefken included, do not think he is worthy of starting pitcher money. ...

Japan Baseball News
East Windup Chronicle — ... Gearing up for the upcoming season, I thought I’d bring our readers’ attention to an excellent site.  Japan Baseball News–a collaborative effort from long-time Japanese baseball guru Bob Bavasi and site author Brandon Siefken–is an effective and well-done site covering professional and amateur baseball in Japan. ...

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