BR Bullpen:Did You Know Archive

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Did you know...

...that Yasuaki Yamasaki was the fastest player in NPB history to 200 saves?
...what records Tim Lewis set for the University of South Carolina?
...that Jim McCollom was an All-Star both of his full seasons in pro ball?
...what franchise record Katsuhiro Nagakawa set?
...that Olivia Pichardo was the first woman to play baseball in NCAA Division I?
...what two awards Akira Nakamura won in the 2020 postseason?
...in what country Thorsten Wöhner won a MVP award?
...in what event Yoshihisa Naruse was named MVP?
...that Tim Dulin once held the University of Memphis career run record?
...in what nation Dan Davidsmeier led the league in doubles and triples?
...what record Mario González set in Cuba?
...what tourney Michael de Gelmini led in ERA?
...that Osamu Nomura was the first pitcher to beat all 12 NPB teams?
...what historic win Manuel Jiménez got for Spain?
...what MVP award Rintaro Hirama won?
...that Roberto Ramos had a 30-season homer in AAA but never made the majors?
...what records Tsuyoshi Nishioka set in 2010?
...what award Han-byul Kim won in 2022?
...what team record Kentaro Nishimura set?
...how Jack Rowan wound up reading his own obituary?
...in what event Po-Chun Lin was named MVP?
...what impressive streak Brandan Bidois had in 2025?
...that Hidetake Watanabe is the only pitcher to throw no-hitters in both Japan's top leagues and minor leagues?
...in what two countries Art Fischetti won stolen base titles?
...what franchise first Kazuhiro Hatakeyama had for the Yakult Swallows?
...in what loop Brian Ralph was named an All-Star in 1999?
...what league Chuck Bauer paced in saves?
...what Vilius Paikovas did that no one else has done for the Lithuanian national team?
...what historic inning Shigeki Noguchi was part of in 1996?
...what record Ricky Kimball holds at Florida State University?
...that Bob Jingling was his college's first All-American?
...in what event Alvin Fleming was co-MVP?
...in what league Ralph Willis holds the single-season shutout record?
...what record Jun Hirose set in 2013?
...what all-time NCAA record Mark Standiford set?
...what department Sven Huhnholz led the league in?
...about the unlikely path Tyler Uberstine took to the majors?
...that Kazuhide Ishiyama was the first Japanese manager in the Korea Baseball Organization?
...in what country Royd Hernández‎‎ won an ERA title?
...what was historic about the first homer by Ryoto Kita?
...in what nation Eric Espino was the first player to 500 career hits?
...that Yoshihiro Akahane had the first sayonara homer that came about due to a challenged call?
...what league Colby Halter led in homers?
...what award Taiga Kojima won in 2024?
...that Jon McDonald was undrafted the year he led the College World Series in ERA?
...what batting title Ryoma Ikeda won despite not qualifying for it?
...that Cade Winquest was the first Rule V pick to make the New York Yankees in over 50 years?
...what All-Star honor Chad Thornhill won?
...that Connor MacDonald was an All-Star first baseman before being moved to the mound?
...what was historic about the drafting of Jonny Farmelo?
...which league Yutaka Otsuka led in wins six times?
...what event Jorge Garcia led in wins?
...what record Isao Odate retired with?
...what award Edwin Arroyo won in 2023?
...what is unique about Kosei Ono's career?
...in what circuit Malcom Nuñez won MVP honors?
...that undrafted Trent Harris wound up in the Futures Game?
...what two countries Yoel Yanqui has won batting titles in?
...what record Takamitsu Io set with his first homer?
...how Anthony Nunez won a college baseball title after having played pro ball for a period?
...what history Ryo Kawano made with his second home run title?
...in what league Jared Serna won Rookie of the Year honors?
...what award Leonardo Bernal won in 2025?
...what award Kat Kamei won in his one season in the US?
...why Kristian Robinson went from being the #1 Arizona Diamondbacks prospect to not playing for three years?
...what history Akira Kawaharada made for the Yomiuri Giants?
...what major leaguer Elmer Rodríguez was dealt one-up for?
...what Donald Brandt's record was in his season without a loss, and which other league pitchers had perfect seasons?
...what league Yuki Egarashi led in ERA?
...what title game Josh Hendrickson won this year?
...what home run title Anthony García won?
...that Tejay Antone wants to be only the third pitcher to make it back to the majors after three Tommy John surgeries?
...in what Gold Medal Game Blake Mitchell pitched the US to victory?
...what franchise records Takumi Kuriyama set?
...that undrafted Jamie Lopiccolo won a MVP his first pro campaign?
...what Yukio Kinugawa was the first player to do?
...what All-Star honors Steve Hine won?
...that Taiga Kasahara was the first NPB hurler whose father and brother had also pitched in NPB?
...what historic victory Elkin Alcala had for his country?
...what was historic about the first homer by Ryuichi Kajimae?
...that Bryan Torres won two MVP awards in under a year?
...that Hisashi Takeda was the first NPB player to be a league leader in holds and saves?
...what award George Callil won in Australia this winter?
...what record Takuya Nakashima set?
...that Sam Antonacci led the nation in five stats while in junior college?
...what record streak Akihiro Higashide had?
...what historic win Akinori Kobayashi had in college?
...what unusual feat Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi accomplished in 2005?
...that Norm Dussault played both pro baseball and pro hockey for teams named the Canadiens?
...what record Kenta Kurose holds?
...that Julien Fountain coached in the 2014 Asian Games - but not in baseball?
...that Katsuhiko Kumon pitched the most NPB games before taking his first loss?
...that Elias Huber won a batting title his first season?
...what record Ryosuke Kishisato set in the Japanese minors?
...what made Jurrangelo Cijntje unique among 2025 minor leaguers?
...what Toichi Yanagisawa was the first player to accomplish?
...what NPB record Ryoma Nishikawa set in 2019?
...what record Ryosuke Tatsumi set in 2023?
...that Riordan Windster was on his country's roster for two events that were taking place at the same time in different countries?
...that Takashi Toritani has played the most games at short of any NPB player?
...what ERA title Cesar Aquino won?
...what franchise first Kenta Satake accomplished?
...what Gold Medal Darío Borrero won in 2025?
...what sad history Kikuo Sato made?
...what historic hit Dovydas Zakaras had for his country?
...that Tadashi Settsu is the only player who has won both the top setup man award and the Sawamura Award?
...what team record Taisei Ota broke last year?
...what historic homer Shogo Sakakura hit in 2024?
...what was unique about Sho Nakata's last RBI title?
...what career home run records Takeya Nakamura has set in Japan?
...that Shendrion Martinus had more RBI in the 2025 Bolivarian Games than he had that whole summer in the minor leagues?
...what career home run record Hiroyuki Saito holds?
...what historic win Cirilo Herrington had for the Salvadoran national team?
...what record Mitsugu Saito set?
...what history Dominic Scheffler made for Switzerland?
...what Koki Saito did that only one NPB player had done previously?
...what team record Yuya Hasegawa set in 2013?
...what Hiroki Tokoda did last season that had been most recently accomplished 36 years prior?
...what honor Manuel Ascanio won in 2023?
...that Shosei Togo was the youngest pitcher to win a strikeout title in Japan's two-league era?
...what family feat first Naomichi Donoue became part of in 2018?
...that Atsushi Nohmi was the oldest pitcher to save a game for the Orix Buffaloes, one of his only four career saves?
...what award Reed Secrist won in 1996?
...that Morimichi Shiose is the only Japanese player to homer in his lone NPB at-bat?
...in what country Daniel Vellojin won a home run title?
...what rough debut Ayahito Shinada had?
...that Jake Scheiner won a AAA home run title but never made the majors?
...what Katsuhiro Jono was the first player to accomplish - a feat that has only been duplicated once in the 57 years since?
...what 2025 event Marc Willi led in steals?
...that Motohiro Shima was the first Rakuten Eagles catcher to qualify for the batting title?
...what black ink Bob Jenkins got his first year in pro ball?
...what history Adomas Aleksandravičius‎‎ made for Lithuania?
...that Steve Grandy was a lost ballplayer for over a century?
...what Opening Day feat Yuichi Honda accomplished that no one had done before in NPB?
...what Bronze Medal Game Jyoji Ito started and finished on the mound but did not pitch a complete game?
...what award Takanobu Oshima won in 2023?
...that Isao Sugimachi was used exclusively as a pitcher both before and after his RBI title?
...what event Darwin Gregg led in OBP?
...that Junzo Sekine is the only player in NPB history to finish in the top 10 in both average and ERA in seasons during his career?
...that Trey McCoy had the longest hitting streak in minor league baseball in 1993?
...what unlikely clutch homer Yudai Fujioka delivered?
...what inaugural MVP Đặng Đình Bảo won?
...that Matas Sirgėdas had the first RBI for Lithuania in a European Championship?
...what record Seiichi Uchikawa set by winning his Gold Glove?
...that Nobuhiro Matsuda was the first player to win 8 Gold Gloves at third base in NPB annals?
...that Márkó Morua was the first player from his country to sign with a MLB organization?
...by what slender margin Masayoshi Tsukada won his 2016 batting title?
...that Austin Jones and Tyler Jones are the first set of twins to be umpires in Major League Baseball?
...what Mizuki Tsuchida accomplished that no one had done in the prior 77 seasons of the Yomiuri Giants' history?
...what event Max Prejda led in steals?
...that Audrius Beliauskas is the oldest player to represent Lithuania in a European Championship?
...what history Yader Monge and Heiner Monge made for Costa Rica?
...when Hosei Takata won a pitching Triple Crown?
...what tournament Jesús Querales recently led in strikeouts?
...what title game Yuto Nakamura started for Japan?
...that David Phrathep is the first known Lao American to play in NCAA Division I?
...what was unusual about the last MLB game played by Mike Howard?
...in what event Gytis Morkūnas pitched the most innings?
...what award Gabriele Angioi won this fall?
...that Michal Šindelka won the batting title in the most recent U23 European Championship?
...what historic run Andrius Stravinskas scored for Lithuania?
...how Heinie Heitmuller won a batting title after he died?
...what title-clinching win Marc Civit had this fall?
...what honors Shane Dennis took home in 1994?
...what championship game Marius Balandis won for his country?
...what event Hyeon-ah Kim paced in RBI?
...in what loop Dave Denton won All-Star honors?
...what record Yumeto Kanemaru set in college?
...what key hit Itaru Hashimoto‎ had for the Japanese national team in 2010?
...what event Giaconino Lasaracina paced in home runs?
...what Ryoji Nakamura was the second player to accomplish?
...what history Martynas Sadzevičius made for Lithuania?
...what was unique about the first two homers by Kenya Nagasaka?
...what adversity Moritz Astner overcame?
...in what circuit Tsubasa Nabatame won an ERA title?
...that Jakob Lindkvist has won the last two Swedish home run crowns?
...in what event Pei-Chen Huang was an All-Star?
...what league Michael Varga led in dingers?
...how Jim Doole spent his summer vacation one year?
...what tournament Ramandeep Kaur paced in games pitched?
...in what event Shawn Goosenberg was the 2017 MVP?
...what league Richard Maibauer led in wins and strikeouts?
...what Masaki Hayashi did that no one had done in the first 54 years of the Central League?
...what two Triple Crown legs Renzo Martini claimed in 2019?
...what record Motoki Higa set in 2014?
...what record Kiyotaka Nishi set?
...what MVP Domas Kamandulis won?
...what team record Takahiro Nishimura tied in 2023?
...what record Etsuo Nakai held for 60 years?
...what history Mantas Cernauskas made for Lithuania?
...that Daisuke Nakashima tied the NPB record for consecutive games with a triple?
...that Verne Blackbourn's major league stint was lost to the history books for over 100 years?
...what Brendan Beck did to win All-American honors?
...what award Mu-Heng Chen won in 2024?
...what records fell in the 2025 KBO?
...what event Shinnosuke Nishimura led in RBI?
...in what league Jhorjan Guevara is the reigning batting titlist?
...in what tournament Sem Kuijper was named the most popular player?
...that Tanner Robles was the only pitcher to throw a shutout in the 2010 Pioneer League?
...what team history Jong-sung Lim made?
...what national award C.J. Ziegler won in 2013?
...what records Zach Cameron set for his college?
...what historic no-hitter Motoaki Haiyama threw?
...what record Riley Thompson broke in 2025 only to see it broken later that season?
...what record Shinya Matsuyama set in 2024?
...what was unique about the debut of Kengo Matsumoto?
...in what event Tobias Glimmerud was named the Best Hitter?
...what historic first Kazuhito Horii was part of?
...that Marcela Díaz has been the starting catcher for all 11 Women's Baseball World Cup games Mexico has played in?
...what records Shuichi Murata set in 2013?
...what All-Star honor Jason Agresti took home this year?
...that Charlie Hood was the first NPB player to homer in three straight innings?
...what 57-year-old record Naoya Masuda tied?
...what happened when José Corniell threw the final pitch of the 2025 MLB Season during his big league debut?
...that Faisal Hayat was one of the first two pro players from Pakistan?
...that Jake Arnow was the first player in his college's history to win All-Conference honors?
...what pivotal role Masato Morishita played in the most recent Olympics to feature baseball?
...what unusual image is on the business card of Masami Miyashita?
...what MLB record Logan Webb holds?
...what record Masayoshi Miwa set?
...what was historic about Toshiro Miyazaki's first steal?
...how close Calixto Vargas came to a batting title in the 1971 Amateur World Series?
...what circumstances cost Hiroya Miyagi his shot at an ERA title last year?
...what Hansel Marcelino did in his NPB debut that no gaijin had done before?
...what franchise record Connelly Early tied in his major league debut?
...what notable work Masahiko Morifuku did in the 2011 Japan Series?
...what historic first Isao Mimura had in the Japan Series?
...that David Millasseau played for France in their first Baseball World Cup and coached for them in their first Women's Baseball World Cup?
...what was historic about the first win by Takaaki Yokoyama?
...in what league Pedro Revilla won his home run title?
...what circuit Alexander Schnitzler paced in wins?
...what award Shota Morishita won in 2024?
...that Antonio Rubio won the first Cuban Serie Nacional ERA title?
...what record Tatsuya Yamamura holds?
...what department Julio Hernández led the Mexican League in?
...what similar history Kozo Mori and Shogo Mori made in the Central League?
...what record Israel Mota set in 2024?
...what was historic about the first homer by Issei Morita?
...what Pan American Games record Frank Wehner held for 20 years?
...what history Tetsuya Yamaguchi made in 2012?
...what training technique did not pay off for Tadakatsu Hanyuda?
...what was unusual about Taishi Kusumoto's first homer?
...what record Daisuke Moriura tied?
...what history Stephan Vidal made for Curaçao?
...what defensive record Shinji Sasamoto set?
...what Yuki Miyazaki did that no one had done prior in NPB annals?
...what home run record Mitsunobu Takahashi set?
...in what tournament Kengo Takeda won All-Star honors?
...what record Hisatoshi Yamamoto held for 30 years?
...that Ilka Arunia Emogene was the first third baseman for the Indonesian women's national team?
...that Tsutomu Wakukawa had more hits in a 11-at-bat stretch in the minors than he had in five seasons in NPB?
...what award Patrick Boyd won in 1999?
...what home run title Daito Yamamoto won?
...that Yasutaka Hironaga hit the first homer in Daiei Hawks history?
...what event Nathan Camacho led in dingers?
...what award Akira Shiobara won in 1961?
...in what tournament Iván Álvarez was named the best pitcher?
...what historic family feat Haruo Kato was part of?
..what Tadayuki Inoue was the second person to accomplish in NPB?
...what unusual pitching line Corbin Martin posted in 2025?
...what record Kesaharu Misawa has held for 55 years?
...what tragedy shortened the career of Yoshizo Tanabe?
...what history Chiara Enrione-Thorrand made for France?
...what Kaito Muramatsu accomplished that no Chunichi Dragons had done before?
...what Seiya Matsubara did that no development player had done before in NPB annals?
...what record Kunizo Umeda once held?
...what history Norikazu Mizutani made in 1936?
...what Steve Mendiola Jr. did that no Micronesian player had done for 20 years?
...what record Masaru Sugimoto set his one year as a pitcher before moving to the outfield?
...what record Hironori Shogaki held for decades?
...what batting title Yutaro Osaki won?
...in what Gold Medal Game Joshua Mathew was the dominant hurler?
...what feat Minoru Shibahara pulled off in the Japanese minors?
...that Shinichi Murakami was the first NPB player to hit a pinch-hit homer in each of his first two at-bats?
...that Shinichi Sakurai got the first NPB hit of the heisei era?
...why Koji Yamaguchi pinch-ran in the middle of a play?'
...what event Harry Ford led in both RBI and steals?
...what franchise history Masaya Kyoyama made?
...that Hiroaki Shibaike threw the first perfect game in the All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series?
...that Fred Dallimore led college baseball in ERA one year?
...what was unique about Yasuo Shirasaki's 1954 season?
...that Torao Ooka holds the NPB record for RBI by a rookie?
...that Larry McLean had the first pinch-hit in AL history?
...that Morimichi Iwashita had his path blocked by two of the greatest first basemen in Japanese history?
...what brother milestones Ryota Arai was part of?
...what records Takao Miyagawa held?
...what historic first Shigeru Sakamoto had?
...that Manabu Satake was the first NPB player with a four-hit debut?
...what franchise record Takuya Hara set?
...what career record Arnoldo Castro set in Mexico?
...what rookie record Kazuhiro Ishiguro tied?
...what historic first Natsuki Higashidani accomplished?
...what league Edgar Huerta led in strikeouts?
...that Masaki Miura was the second pitcher to save a NPB game without throwing a pitch?
...that Rob Mattson was the first full-time knuckleballer in NPB?
...that Kozo Goi was the first Pacific League pitcher to throw a shutout in his debut?
...what history Marianna Casal made for Great Britain?
...that Ryutaro Sugiura was the first Central League rookie to get an Opening Day complete game?
...in what event Joe Gunkel pitched 18 innings without allowing a run to take his team to the title?
...what strategic move had pitcher Kazuo Hoshiba batting leadoff one game?
...what history John Sardinha made for the Nankai Hawks?
...that Didier Fuentes had gone 0-7 in the minors when he became the youngest major leaguer?
...what event Ni Putu Radha Ananditha Putri led in OPS (among other stats)?
...what record Teruo Iko held for 42 years?
...that brothers Mario Andrés Velasco and Mario Neftali Velasco both represented their country the same year, but in different events?
...what historic homer Hiromi Tanida hit?
...what home run title Keisaburo Yoneda won?
...that Osamu Hoshino was the final batter in the history of the Kintetsu Buffaloes?
...that Kazuaki Otomo had the first steal in Japanese pro baseball history?
...what MVP award Tatsuya Shimozono won?
...what unusual game-ending play Yoshiyuki Shimizu was involved in?
...what record Teruo Tabe held for over 60 years?
...that Toshio Tanokura was the only NPB player involved in multiple immaculate innings?
...what MVP award Misho Nishikawa won in 2023?
...what historic homer Kiyoshi Watanabe made?
...what record Naritaka Tanaka set?
...what Yasuhiko Tsuji did that no prior Central League catcher had done?
...why Hiroaki Nagamoto issued the first bases-loaded walk in NPB history?
...that Takahiro Watanabe won three MVP awards in college?
...what record Satoshi Takahashi held for 82 years?
...what history Lorena Medrano made for the Dominican Republic?
...what record Ryota Takinaka set?
...what adversity Yojiro Miyamoto overcame?
...what unusual statistics Shigeta Kobayashi put together in 1938?
...what Central League record Nobuyuki Kadooka set?
...that Katsumi Kanayama threw nine no-hit innings in a game without getting an official no-hitter?
...what records Naoaki Hayashi set?
...that Yukio Osada holds his franchise record for pinch-hits?
...in what recent event Žan Primožič won MVP honors?
...what fielding record Masahiro Takahashi set?
...what record Yusuke Torigoe set in 1997?
...what Hall of Fame Antonio Keller is in?
...what award Kaoru Hirata won in 1981?
...why Takeo Kanda wore a mask while pitching?
...what historic game Seitaro Watanabe pitched?
...what Pacific League record Katsuya Kishikawa has held for decades?
...what record Eiji Kiyokawa held for 21 years?
...what José Garibay led the Mexican League in?
...what historic game Masayuki Yamazaki pitched?
...that Osamu Goto played for more Nippon Pro Baseball teams than anyone else?
...what record Koichi Iwashita set?
...what franchise history Yoshimi Ebara made?
...that Michio Ukari threw the first perfect game in Japan's Western League?
...what Kazuo Satake was the first catcher to accomplish?
...what was unique about Sakae Nakamura on the first Kokutetsu Swallows team?
...what history Shigeyoshi Morishita made in 1951?
...what record Nariharu Sakazawa set?
...what feat Zenjiro Tadokoro accomplished in 1952?

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