The Art of Asian Pitching: Quick and Efficent

Yesterday i was surfing ESPN.com, which is what i do every day instead of work (which could be detrimental) and came across Tim Kurkjian's article reviewing the Red Sox pitching rotation which as he sees it is:



Daisuke Matsuzaka - The biggest thing to hit America from Japan since the PS2
Josh Beckett - High ERA last season, but a proven winner
Curt Schilling - Still
Jonathan Papelbon - Last Year's Closer
Jon Lester - Cancer is in Remisson
Tim Wakefield - Knuck-yo-mother

With an outside chance of Roger Clemens in the summer

What about the Yanks?

Mike Mussina and Andy Pettitte are the big most recognizable names.

and you have this Asian:

Chien-Ming Wang - Proud graduate of Taipei Ti Wu University and owner of 19 wins and a 3.63 ERA..Can he repeat?

But then there are these guys:

Kei Igawa and Jeff Karstens...who?

So the main question of the most overblown rivalry in all of ' American' sports is, who going to be the better "Asian" pitcher this year Chien-Ming Wang or Daisuke Matsuzaka? (In thinking that the pitcher's team with the better record will win the division, since it's not automatic anymore that the other team will get the wild card, thank you tigers) Those of us that stayed up till 4 am to watch Matsuzaka pitch in the World Baseball Classic know that he's got some nasty stuff, that was helped developed by whacky Japanese Scientists. Wang with 19 wins last season is the early season favorite. But what will make them successful is their ability to adapt day in day out, year in year out to the best hitting on the planet...and couple guys from canada

E.T.