756+ or 868?

MGP · Post by **MGP** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:27 am

[quote]Sadaharu Oh or officially Wang Chenchih (Chinese: 王貞治; Pinyin: W

eternalreflection · Post by **eternalreflection** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:25 am

Hank Aaron would have hit like 1100hrs in the Japanese league during that timeframe

Prophecy · Post by **Prophecy** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:26 am

Josh Gibson

bringinoutbangerz · Post by **bringinoutbangerz** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:53 am

Adrock wrote:I got more hits than Sadaharu Oh

Prophecy · Post by **Prophecy** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:11 pm

eternalreflection wrote:Hank Aaron would have hit like 1100hrs in the Japanese league during that timeframe

You prolly know better than I do, but weren't the ball parks alot smaller over there during that time period.

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:26 pm

eternalreflection wrote:Hank Aaron would have hit like 1100hrs in the Japanese league during that timeframe

eris · Post by **eris** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:39 am

Prophecy wrote:Josh Gibson

Exactly.

Dunnnnleavy · Post by **Dunnnnleavy** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:52 pm

Sodaharu is a bitch who gets scared of losing his single-season HR record and tells his pitchers to walk whoever is about to break it at the moment...(cant lie, i just read this on wikipedia yesterday)

see: Mr. Baseball

jamrage · Post by **jamrage** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:43 am

Dunnnnleavy wrote:Sodaharu is a bitch who gets scared of losing his single-season HR record and tells his pitchers to walk whoever is about to break it at the moment...(cant lie, i just read this on wikipedia yesterday)

see: Mr. Baseball

Yeah, I've heard something about this.

Anyone remember a guy called Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes? Used to be in the Astros system amongst others. Apparently he played over there and tied Oh's single season record for homers with some games to play. He didn't get shit to hit for the rest of the year, and I believe he played the team Oh managed right there at the end. Bush league.

The fact that Rhodes could go over there and tear up the league despite not being able to stay in the majors speaks volumes of the Japanese league. Oh might have been a 20 homer guy in MLB if he was lucky.

BeHemoth · Post by **BeHemoth** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:17 pm

those are little league fields over there

elohim · Post by **elohim** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:46 pm

Prophecy wrote:Josh Gibson

eternalreflection · Post by **eternalreflection** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:49 pm

BeHemoth wrote:those are little league fields over there

the Japanese league is pretty tough, slightly better play than AAAball if I remember correctly

probably looking at something like a 10-15% decrease across the board on all the stats to compare to MLB