Swallows Man (not A-Rod's offseason training regimen)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Meet Igarashi

http://ryo-ta.way-nifty.com/swallowsman/

Deets here:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2010/02/22/2010-02-22_the_allure_of_the_west.html

[metirish]

Love it.....

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

He's like a Shinjo or Turk for the luchador-mask-wearing young parent set. He speaks to me.

[metirish]

Can you read the text in his website LWFS?

[Frayed Knot]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Can you read the text in his website LWFS?

[metirish]

Ahh , I'm taking the piss, you're a good sport LWFS.

[ashie62]

Cool glasses frames and a pork pie hat.. Possibly a Japanese hipster?

[metirish]

Look at baseball reference for this guy and they have him under "minors"


http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=igaras001ryo

[Frayed Knot]

Maybe BB-Rf is starting to incorporate Japanese stats into their database (be cool if that's the case) - or at least the JPL stats of those guys who come over here. They just have one year for him at the moment but I bet that grows over time.
Filing that stuff under 'minor league' is probably just a way of keeping those numbers separate from the ML stats. 'Other' might be a more accurate designation but one step at a time.

Among other things I notice that BB-RF has added recently is the burial spot of deceased guys (or at least some of them) to go along with the date and place of death.