Hideo Nomo

Hideo Nomo (Japanese野茂 英雄, Hideo Nomo, born August 31, 1968 in Osaka, Japan) is a former Japanese baseball player of the Kintetsu Buffaloes of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball League and the U.S. Major League Baseball clubs Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Kansas City Royals. Nomo playing the position of pitcher, Masanori Murakami was after the second Japanese in the MLB, the first Japanese pitcher with a no-hitter and the first Japanese MLB All-Star.

Career

Nomo was from his youth a talented pitcher who in Seoul took with Japan at the 1988 Olympics, the silver medal. He was bound by the Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japanese professional league NPB 1989. With the Buffaloes, he won 78 games in five years, losing only 43 and threw 1,204 strikeouts in a earned run average of 3.15. Nomo vain demanded more money and as Japanese clubs require their rookies for ten years, the Buffaloes insisted on compliance with the Treaty. Nomo said his career unceremoniously ended for ( what made ​​the ten-year contract lapsed ) and moved in 1995 to a minimum salary to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Despite Vorbehaltem he immediately became one of the best MLB pitcher by winning 13 games and lost only six, a 2.54 ERA and recorded 236 batters in only 191.3 innings sent with strikeout on the bench. He was Rookie of the Year in the National League and played in the All- Star Game. More and more often appeared in Japanese banner at Dodgers games, and besides the usual pretzels the fans Sushi was sold. The account of his changing maneuver previously hostile Japanese press celebrated Nomo as " modern samurai " who beat the Americans with " Japanese virtues" at their own game. The Japanese television transferred Nomos games live, and although they were middle of the night due to time difference, they were pursued eagerly.

The Dodgers Nomo won in the first three years, 43 games and lost 29, but built from the age of 30. The batsmen had set to his unorthodox throwing technique (see below), but he stayed with the Mets, Brewers, Tigers and Red Sox a decent reserve player: he won 37 games and lost 35 When he came to the Dodgers in 2002, he won yet in three years, 36 games and lost 30, his career did he finish then with the Blue Jays and the Royals.

Nomo is considered a pioneer of Japanese stars like Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Irabu and Daisuke Matsuzaka, who also changed from the Japanese NPB in the U.S. MLB.

Throwing technique

Nomo had an unusual throwing style that earned him the nickname " Tornado". In the litter preparation ( windup ) he stood with his back to the hitter, took his knees nearly up to the chin ( flamingo - kick ) and threw the ball only after he had turned around 180 degrees. This unorthodox technique was of strokes hard to read and contributed to Nomos high strikeout factor in. In addition, Nomo could get a very good forkball. But Nomos extremely long rotational movement made him vulnerable against fast baserunner who like to steal bases against him.

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