What is happening? Welcome to the Plus Pitch Podcast. You're more pitching podcast from Pitcherlist.com. My name is Nick Pollock. Today is March 18th. And yes, we are going to talk about baseball because there was baseball earlier today in Japan. It was awesome. I'm inmanaga versus Yamamoto. And we should be seeing Sasaki. I think it's steel. And honestly, you're going to see some Cubs guys.

You're going to see some Dodgers guys. Maybe Glasgow will be a part of it too. Maybe we'll

see some Tyon. Maybe some Boyd. Probably not Boyd in time. But we'll see. Long story short, though,

I'm not recommending you start any of your starting pitchers for this. I am not recommending you sit any of your hitters. You

should start your hitters, not your pitchers. Your relievers fine. But for your starters, we

shouldn't be expecting more than 70 pitches. That's really what we got from Minnaga and Yamamoto.

Fortunately, if you left them in, you got some value because they didn't hurt you in this time.

But yeah, these guys are still kind of going through the spring training right now. We saw this last year and we should expect it again for the second game.

Imanaga and Yamamoto, yeah, both good. Four innings and zero earned runs, zero hits, four walks, two case for I'm not worried about it.

For him, it's nice to see that he's at 92. It obviously came with adrenaline because he's pitching in Japan, his home

country. That's awesome. But we saw under 90 in the spring, and I imagine we'll see closer to 91 in

season. We're fine with that. Everything is cool here with Amanaga. Well, with Yamamoto, we have zero for 29

four Seamer Whiffs because he refused to go upstairs. I'm sorry Nate Schwartz.

He had a great article about why Yamamoto does not need to go upstairs and he doesn't need to

because he's clearly successful, but he could be better.

He could be better than four strike hits and five innings.

Even with that splitter going nine over 29 whiffs, to see just 4Ks kind of showcases how the fourseamer needs to do

more to get there.

But he's obviously very productive of a starter five innings, one or two run, three hits, one walk

and four Ks.

So an awesome time in Japan here.

And Sasaki in front of that crowd too is going to be amazing.

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