About Japan Baseball News

:::: Japan Baseball News is your source for news and analysis of Japanese pro and amateur baseball. JapanBaseballNews.com is a collaborative site run by Bob Bavasi of Bavasi Sports and Brandon Siefken, author and Japanese baseball analyst.  

Brandon Siefken

:::: About the author - Brandon Siefken has covered Japanese pro and amateur baseball since 1991. He currently provides services to a Major League Baseball team and has been quoted in The New York Times, ESPN, Bloomberg, The Japan Times, the Japan Pro Baseball Fan Handbook and Media Guide and other publications regarding Japanese baseball. Brandon has appeared on Will Carroll’s Baseball Prospectus radio show ( http://www.baseballprospectus.com/radio/audio/bpr_100316_1.mp3 ) and is a regular writer for Bob Bavasi’s JapanBall.com site. Brandon has also authored several articles including “The Kuroda Index” and “Yu Darvish: A Pitch-by-Pitch Scouting Report. Scouting Japanese Pitchers by Pitch Velocity and Location.”

Each year Brandon publishes the “Japan Baseball News Weekly”( http://www.japanball.com/weekly.htm ) newsletter with updated weekly stats for every player and weekly scouting analysis from April to October. Brandon also publishes the “NPB Japanese Baseball Almanac.” Brandon can be contacted at brandon@japanball.com.