{"id":14316,"date":"2015-04-15T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=14316"},"modified":"2015-04-14T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T20:51:27","slug":"kyuji-fujikawa-%e8%97%a4%e5%b7%9d-%e7%90%83%e5%85%90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/kyuji-fujikawa-%e8%97%a4%e5%b7%9d-%e7%90%83%e5%85%90\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyuji Fujikawa (\u85e4\u5ddd \u7403\u5150)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14317\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/148_1889-RAW-kyuji-fujikawa-chicago-cubs.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14317\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/148_1889-RAW-kyuji-fujikawa-chicago-cubs-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"kyuji fujikawa chicago cubs\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/148_1889-RAW-kyuji-fujikawa-chicago-cubs-800x514.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/148_1889-RAW-kyuji-fujikawa-chicago-cubs-250x160.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/148_1889-RAW-kyuji-fujikawa-chicago-cubs.jpg 2025w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyuji Fujikawa of the 2014 Chicago Cubs (Coors Field, Denver, Colorado)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While visiting <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/coors-field\/>Coors Field<\/a> for the first time last year, I wondered why more than half of the photo pit was filled with Japanese photographers. I wasn&#8217;t aware of any Japanese players on either team, but that probably has more to do with my lack of interest in the National League than anything else. When Kyuji (literally &#8220;baseball child&#8221;) came trotting in from the bullpen, the photographers went crazy.<\/p>\n<p>After an excellent career in Japan (196 saves and a 1.77 ERA), Kyuji hasn&#8217;t done much in MLB. He had a 5.04 ERA in two seasons with the Cubs (although he pitched in only 25 innings total&#8211;I bet the Cubs wish they hadn&#8217;t wasted $9.5M on him). He is on the DL for the Texas Rangers this year. Texas will pay him $1.1 million this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While visiting Coors Field for the first time last year, I wondered why more than half of the photo pit was filled with Japanese photographers. I wasn&#8217;t aware of any Japanese players on either team, but that probably has more to do with my lack of interest in the National League than anything else. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[82,533,535,429,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14319,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions\/14319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}