{"id":695643,"date":"2022-12-31T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/695643\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T14:00:18","slug":"the-state-of-npb-foreign-hitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/695643\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of NPB Foreign Hitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The State of NPB Foreign Hitters\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lj6Y8tQN1RI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn recent years, foreign hitters in Nippon Professional Baseball have been struggling more than ever. But why? Is it fair to judge the success of foreigners based purely on how many home runs they hit? Let&#8217;s examine data on foreign hitters since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Become a patron: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/baseballcosmo<br \/>\nFollow on Twitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/yakyucosmo<br \/>\nFollow on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/yakyucosmo<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for more NPB content in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, foreign hitters in Nippon Professional Baseball have been struggling more than ever. But why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":695644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[10624,8346,198,105,200,2890,111527,92,111530,1752,51,4352,111529,4472,1077,4655,1694,50919,4473,3020,5497,1857,31593,111528,3377],"class_list":{"0":"post-695643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tokyo-yakult-swallows","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-npb","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baystars","12":"tag-buffaloes","13":"tag-carp","14":"tag-cosmopolitan","15":"tag-dragons","16":"tag-fielder","17":"tag-fighters","18":"tag-giants","19":"tag-hawks","20":"tag-hitter","21":"tag-japanese-baseball","22":"tag-lions","23":"tag-marines","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-nihon","26":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","27":"tag-pitcher","28":"tag-swallows","29":"tag-tigers","30":"tag-yakyu","31":"tag-yakyu-cosmopolitan","32":"tag-3377"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}