Tag: column
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Platelets for Breakfast
Yukan Fuji, 2010 – Robert Whiting Have you ever heard of platelet-rich plasma injection therapy (PRP)? Neither have I – but a lot of people in MLB have. One of them is Seattle Mariners pitcher Cliff Lee who spent the first part of the season on the disabled list recovering from a severe strain in…
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Sayonara Hillman-san
2010, Yukan Fuji – Robert Whiting Hillman left Japan at the end of the 2007 season, after winning two Pacific League pennant and a Japan Series crown for the Nippon Ham Fighters, saying that five years was the maximum a man should manage a baseball team, especially if that manager was a foreigner managing a…
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Advice column – Letter to Ichiro Suzuki
2010, Yukan Fuji – Robert Whiting Dear Mr. Whiting: As you know I recently passed my 10th consecutive MLB season of achieving 200 hits, which tied a record held by Pete Rose. Many people in the American media have been comparing me to Pete Rose, since then. Some say he was superior because he won…
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