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2005 Best Nine

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2005 Best Nine
Per request from the post in Open Talk.
    Central League                       Pacific League
(1) Hiroki Kuroda      (HC)    P     (1) Toshiya Sugiyama   (FSH)
(2) Akihiro Yano       (HT)    C     (6) Kenji Johjima      (FSH)
(1) Takahiro Arai      (HC)    1B    (1) Julio Zuleta       (FSH)
(2) Masahiro Araki     (CD)    2B    (1) Yuuichi Hori       (CLM)
(*) Makoto Imaoka      (HT)    3B    (1) Toshiaki Imae      (CLM)
(3) Hirokazu Ibata     (CD)    SS    (1) Tsuyoshi Nishioka  (CLM)
(5) Tomoaki Kanemoto   (HT)    OF    (*) Kazuhiro Wada      (SL)
(1) Norichika Aoki     (YS)    OF    (1) Katsuhiko Miyaji   (FSH)  
(2) Norihiro Akahoshi  (HT)    OF    (1) Matt Franco        (CLM)
                               DH    (*) Nobuhiko Matsunaka (FSH)
(The *'s are -- Imaoka won twice as a second baseman but this is his first at 3B, Wada won as a DH once but this is his third consecutive in the outfield, and Matsunaka won three times as a 1B but this is his first as a DH.)

Does it strike anyone else as weird that Nishioka won Best Nine as a shortstop and Golden Glove as a second baseman?
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Re: 2005 Best Nine
[ Author: Guest | Posted: Nov 14, 2005 11:41 AM ]

That's Japanese baseball for ya! I also love the limits they put on how many foreigners are allowed to be on the All-Star team. Nice! I can understand a limit for the regular season, but the All-Star game is for the best players.
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Re: 2005 Best Nine
[ Author: Christopher | Posted: Nov 14, 2005 2:55 PM | HAN Fan ]

What strikes me as strange is that Imaoka won the Best Third Base award for the Central League. His batting was phenominal, true, but his fielding was not good.
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Re: 2005 Best Nine
[ Author: Jen Wei | Posted: Nov 28, 2005 6:44 PM | HNHF Fan ]

I feel that in Central League got 3 outfielders of the new generation. They are Shima, Tamura, and Aoki. Especially compared to the past few years, there's a lot of difference.
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