tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320665645057211473.post5085100632269617934..comments2023-11-15T01:08:05.146-05:00Comments on Baseball Happenings: Tuffy Rhodes announces his retirement from Japanese baseballN. Diuntehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07632278004663368487noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320665645057211473.post-87606368371146966362010-04-13T20:53:12.179-04:002010-04-13T20:53:12.179-04:00There are players older than he still going in the...There are players older than he still going in the NPB that are less productive. Couple that with the fact that Rhodes doesn't count against the foreign player limit, it makes for a real head scratcher why he isn't in some team's uniform right now. Rakuten should've signed him to be their first baseman, or to replace the walking zombie corpse that is Takeshi Yamasaki.asdfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729267677043071745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2320665645057211473.post-80794868109268193042010-04-03T16:34:32.377-04:002010-04-03T16:34:32.377-04:00Great stuff and I notice he still doesn't come...Great stuff and I notice he still doesn't come right out and say he's done. I really hope somewhere during the season, one of the other teams comes calling, should one of their sluggers go down wiht an injury. Further evidence of how different Japanese baseball is to MLB. In the US, some team would have picked him up purely for the publicity of the countdown to his 500th HR and 2000th hit.<br /><br />I never realized there was a slideshow feature in Picasa, nice to see my collection getting some air!Jason Presleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13543465200431539036noreply@blogger.com