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The Ballpark
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| Yokohama Stadium |
Address: Yokohama Koen-nai,
Naka-ku,
Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
Japan 231-0022 |
| Telephone: 045-661-1251 |
| Fax: |
| Dimensions: LF 308 CF 387 RF 308 |
| Capacity: 30,000 |
| Comments: After a third place showing
in 2006, starters Yoshihiro Doi and Ken Kadokura |
| turned into pumpkins and stunk it up most of
the season and what appeard to be a heavy |
| hitting lineup racked up strikeouts by the ton
while hordes of runners were left out on the |
| basepaths. Kadokura is now gone via free agency
and they brought in a former skipper, |
| Akihiko Oya, to try to inject some energy into a stagnant team. It
also hasn't helped that |
| none of their last few top pitching draft picks did anything at all
and kamikaze power |
| hitting outfielder Hitoshi Tamura continues his Rusty Greer like fondness
for the disabled |
| list. Look for more misery in this port city for 2007. |