Youk Discusses Japanese Baseball

Youk has revived his blog and has several posts from Japan. Today he wrote about baseball in Japan:

Hanshin threw their best pitchers at us. They're good players and it was a close game. I don't know if all the hitters on that team could hit consistently at the Major League level. That would probably be tough. They don't like the hard heat.

It's just a little different, because, I think, the pitchers here also pitch different. I was watching a baseball game here today and they use a lot of offspeed pitches. They use their fastball a little bit, but they really focus on the offspeed stuff.