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The Quiver - Your Shizuoka Arrows News Source
August 1, 2024
Have you noticed that Shizuoka is buzzing lately? The Arrows are in the hunt for a playoff spot, coming off a 15-11 July. We're 1.5 back of Rakuten, and 2.5 back of SoftBank! That's soooo close!
We have to tip our caps to the new guys on the squad who we got for Shu Masuda - Taishi Ota has a 1.003 OPS over 20 games, and Keita Nakagawa's at .771 OPS through 19 starts, giving poor Joh Endoh a break.
And speaking of new guys, can we tip our caps to Satoru Matsushta? He won the PL Rookie of the Month Award in July, with 4 HRs and 18 RBI over the month. I bet Hiroshima regrets losing him now!
Although our team didn't make any deals at the deadline, we did see two trades in July, one bidding farewell to an original Arrow.
* 2B Ryo Watanabe and LHP Hiroto Fuku were sent to the Yomiuri Giants for 3B Youhei Nihei and RHP Masahiro Yokoyama
* RHP Sam Bragg headed to the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters for expiring free agent RHP Taisho Tamai
We also heard that Yuta Takano may be back from injury soon! Fingers crossed everyone.
It's going to be a sprint to the finish; kattobase Arozu!
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