Whats the difference between baseball in Japan and baseball in America? -

What are the differences and advantages in both? and is Japanese baseball players better than American players? If the United States went over to Japan and had a baseball competition, who would win? and why

tune into the World Baseball Classic to see see how Americans hold up to teams around the world...... it won t be pretty

The similarities are in the mechanics of the game..the rules are the same, the playoff system similar and one league in Japan uses the DH and one does not. The differences are largely cultural. Although there are more and more exceptions, Japanese baseball rewards collective effort and conformity over individual flash and achievement. Japanese players are expected to work out rigorously as a group as opposed to the loose stretching and sprinting you d see before an MLB game. And Japanese pitchers are expected to be able to pitch everyday in any role demanded by the team. If the best MLB players faced the best Japanese players in a 7 game series, I think the Japan team would be lucky to win 2 games....But, as you can see by the number of American players that opt out of the WBC, and take into account how many of those guys aren t necessarily quot;Americanquot; that is a pure hypothetical...

Japan won the initial World Baseball Classic, we will see if they can defend their title in March. I think it was the pitching that enabled Japan to win the WBC. Generally speaking Japanese baseball tends to use quot;small ballquot; tactics. Like Ichiro, a good Japanese position player is expected to master all aspects of the game-have a good glove as well as a bat and be able to bunt or steal a base when called upon.

Japan is more into fundamentals and they do the quot;little thingsquot; right. I noticed when Tsuyoshi Shingo played for the Mets that he always quot;worked deep into the countquot; he made the opposing pitcher work, and throw allot of pitches. More US hitters should do that, take pitches and force the opposing pitcher to throw more. The Japanese make every attempt to prevent the opposition from scoring, and the US teams don t.

I think the main difference is that Japan stresses pitching and defense whereas America focuses more on offense. Ichiro was once asked, quot;what is the major difference between Japanese baseball and the MLB?quot;. He replied, quot;Here your goal is to score runs and in Japan it is to prevent the opponent from scoring runs.quot;

Well it depends on what you mean be American baseball. Is David Ortiz American baseball? Thats the make or break of this question. I think the size of the baseballs are different in Japan. Thats all I can come up with.

They ve done that. Just check the results of the exhibition games played in Japan the past few years. The reason U.S. teams in the Olympics and the WBC don t fare as well is that they re mostly minor leaguers.

smaller ballparks, different work out routines, little leugers use different baseballs, and pitchers wind up are completly difrent but other than that its the same game and the american teams would definatly beat japanese teams because of skill level, competitoin, and when you take a great japanese baseball player in america you get a good one not great look at matsui s and dice k s number compared

One league has Tom Selleck and one league doesn t.

The food.