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The story
With the Giants playing under an acting-manager setup, the team entered the final game of its series against Hiroshima, and when the starting lineup was announced on September 5, harsh comments like “this reeks of the farm team” poured in. On the other hand, some praised the decision to keep using Takumi Ohshiro, who chose to stay with the team instead of testing free agency, saying it was “good to see him get rewarded.” Opinions were split. News that Orix’s Kohei Higashi underwent right elbow surgery for the third year in a row also became a talking point, and the thread that day was dominated by discussion of team management and roster decisions.
What people said
Giants Acting Manager Thread 124 (fixed)
Still, they really need to develop their own catchers
Matsui didn't bail — he wants to be a coach/manager for an MLB team
That's the "rest of the dream" Matsui talked about
It's not just about education level — it's whether they were team captain in high school, college, or during their playing days as a pro, whether they've had coaching or farm-team manager experience, or whether they jumped straight to manager with no steps in between.
Take Kazuhiko Ushijima, for example: he consistently insisted that if he became a pitching coach, he'd need full authority over pitcher usage and pull timing — with not even the manager allowed to interfere — and he never budged on that condition with anyone. As a result, coaching offers kept falling through one after another. In the end, the only job he ever actually got was manager of the BayStars.
Manager Fujikawa's stock has been rising thanks to Kudo and Kinoshita breaking out and Motoyama bouncing back…
Last time it was because 'Lord Hashi' (a player mockingly deified for issuing an intentional walk) gave an intentional walk — it'll be fine this time
Tigers–BayStars (Koshien) 18:00
Carp–Giants (Mazda Stadium) 18:00
▽ Announced starters for Sat 9/5
(Tigers–BayStars) Shoki Murakami (R) vs. Takato Ogata (R)
(Carp–Giants) Shogo Tamamura (L) vs. Masahiro Tanaka (R)
Since Tamamura's a lefty, they'll probably shamelessly pull the Ishizuka-to-Sakamoto swap again
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/06f5ace5f6a781828dbc42a7fd5f4158e4142d87
Orix announced that pitcher Kohei Higashi (26) underwent ligament repair surgery with an internal brace for a torn ligament in his right elbow on the 4th at a hospital in Saga Prefecture. He's expected to be hospitalized for about a week before starting rehab.
Oh right, Higashi's still around — totally forgot about him
Starting to get scared of how many games are left against Hiroshima…
https://kizuna.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1788563666/
Sato-Teru will be carrying the load starting next year, so rest easy
Suzuki
Kimutaku
Gattsu
Rami
Seung-yeop
Tani
Abe
Sakamoto
With PND coming off the bench
Of course a lineup like that was gonna win lol
Out of today's starters, only Urata and Ohshiro would even make the bench back then lol
The pinch hitter was actually Daido
Koseki: "I touched it"
Saturday, September 5, 13:55–17:00
Live broadcast of the 97th Intercity Baseball Tournament
Semifinal: Seino Transportation (Ogaki City) vs. Aejec (Oyama City)
— from Tokyo Dome
Commentary: Shigeru Komori (Managing Director, JABA Gifu Prefecture Baseball Federation)
Play-by-play: Tomohiro Ueno
*Broadcast will run past the scheduled end time until the game finishes
Thx — oh, it's the semifinal, huh
1B: Tima, Riku Masuda
2B: Urata
3B: Sakamoto, Ishizuka
SS: Izumiguchi, Yuasa
LF: Maru, Matsumoto, Hagio
CF: Dai Suzuki
RF: Sasaki, Nakayama
Apparently Darbeck was out for warmups, but then talked with the trainer afterward, and the coaching staff got kind of flustered… or so I hear
Since Tamamura's a lefty, it'll probably be Sakamoto at 3B again with Tima or Riku at 1B
Come on, don't tell me both guys who drove in runs yesterday are sitting this one out
How come Kinoshita and Kudo just show up and the weakness disappears just like that? Our team is riddled with weaknesses and we're struggling
Maybe our team needs to rethink its draft strategy…
If anything it's turned into a strength for them, so to beat them you need to at least be tied heading into the late innings
Score at full throttle from the first inning, and ride the starter as far as he can go
A game like the one against the Swallows the other day is the worst-case scenario
Starting Lineups
[Giants] [Carp]
4 Urata 8 Sho Nakamura
6 Izumiguchi 3 Kei Sato
3 Riku Masuda 7 Fabian
2 Ohshiro 5 Sakakura
5 Ishizuka 4 Kikuchi
7 Matsumoto 9 Sasaki
8 Dai Suzuki 2 Mochizumi
9 Sasaki 6 Katsuta
1 Masahiro Tanaka 1 Tamamura
*Darbeck out of the lineup due to not feeling well
Lol this one reeks of the farm team too
And Hochi Shimbun's out here saying it's just like 18 years ago — lmao
Maki
vs. Giants: OPS .693
vs. Tigers: OPS 1.176
Encarnacion
vs. Giants: OPS .581
vs. Tigers: OPS 1.014
Miyazaki
vs. Giants: OPS .500
vs. Tigers: OPS 1.002
Our team's Kanagawa branch is doing pretty well
Doing good, aren't they
Background and Key Points
Takumi Ohshiro appears to have chosen to stay with the team even though he was eligible for free agency, and whether the club can develop a long-term starting catcher has repeatedly come up as an ongoing issue for the organization. Kohei Higashi’s right elbow surgery, which became a talking point that day, is his third in as many years, once again highlighting how difficult it is to manage and develop pitchers who keep getting injured. In the thread, harsh assessments of the lineup and in-game management appeared alongside comments pointing out individual players’ strong records against certain opponents — a reminder that the lineup card alone doesn’t tell you whether the strategy behind it is sound. Note that some posts touching on managerial personnel decisions and club alumni could not be verified, so they have not been included in this article.
*This article is an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Giants Acting Manager Thread 125.”
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