{"id":170,"date":"2007-12-14T13:50:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T20:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/what%e2%80%99s-on-second-the-japanese-are-coming-part-iii\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T22:51:00","slug":"what%e2%80%99s-on-second-the-japanese-are-coming-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/what%e2%80%99s-on-second-the-japanese-are-coming-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ON SECOND? The Japanese are Coming, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'\">I n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'\">ever like to assume, so once again a quick clarification from the previous segment: <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'\"><span><\/span>In Step #4, Leagues Park Difference, the 13% Park Difference will expand or contract depending on the SPECIFIC parks a player is coming from and going to.<span>   <\/span>For example, if a Japanese player is moving from pitcher-friendly Koshien Kyujo in NPB to hitter-friendly Coors Field in MLB, that 13% difference would be much smaller \u00e2\u20ac\u201c perhaps 6% instead of 13%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Secondly the statistics that follow are Major League Equivalents and not actual NPB statistics.  For the NPB stats check <a href=\"http:\/\/japanesebaseball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'\"><o:p><\/o:p>Now, finally, on to the MLEs, and first up is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.(DRUM ROLL PLEASE)\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua'\"><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/japaneseMLE.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#b22222\">[more&#8230;]<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never like to assume, so once again a quick clarification from the previous segment: In Step #4, Leagues Park Difference, the 13% Park Difference will expand or contract depending on the SPECIFIC parks a player is coming from and going to. For example, if a Japanese player is moving from pitcher-friendly Koshien Kyujo in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistical-analysis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}