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AERA dot. has reported on a “waning of leadership pull” surrounding Nippon-Ham manager Shinjo Tsuyoshi. Before the season he repeatedly declared “Beat SoftBank” and an “utterly dominant championship,” but with the team now struggling to even hit its target of 96 wins — let alone the league title — reports say the club is leaning toward asking him to stay on regardless. On 5ch, threads have split: some point to the team’s lopsided losing record in head-to-head games against SoftBank as the real problem, while others argue “no manager could have won this year” given SoftBank’s sheer strength, leaving opinion divided on whether Shinjo should continue.
9/21 (Mon) 18:00 JST
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Nippon-Ham manager Shinjo Tsuyoshi’s leadership pull is starting to show cracks. He has repeated “Beat SoftBank” and an “utterly dominant championship” again and again, but the results look set to go the opposite way. The Climax Series (CS) is still ahead, and some reports say the club plans to ask him to stay on regardless — but…
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
That's because he changed his registered name.
there's no cushier job than that.
Both 96 wins and the pennant are looking pretty tough now.
They're strong, sure, but for any team the real goal is a league title followed by the Japan Series championship, no question
Might be about time for a fresh start with a new team identity.
You could call him the guy who single-handedly made the Pacific League boring.
Don't forget how lucky you are that someone's willing to be stationed out in Ezo (old name for Hokkaido), Hokkaido folks.
Fujikawa doesn't have the presence for it
And the Fighters should just hand it to Tanaka Yukio.
The real problem is losing to SoftBank too badly
SoftBank only goes even with Rakuten
It's not like they're unbeatable.
The year after that, just bring back Inaba.
SoftBank's just absurdly strong.
their financial muscle is on another level — FA signings and foreign players even stacked in their 4th-string squad
honestly, Seibu did well for themselves this year.
Like it or not, Shinjo's Fighters are simply losing too much to SoftBank
SoftBank's strong, but their winning margin mostly comes from beating up on the Fighters and Lotte.
Seibu's player development is really paying off
they keep producing changeup lefties, relievers, and position players like clockwork.
still, if they did change managers it'd probably turn into a circus, so part of me almost wants them to do it just for the entertainment.
Who'd be good for the Fighters then? Inada, maybe?
How about Kida Masao — he did fine as interim manager.
so he probably went all-out to win specifically against the Fighters.
Those two are close enough to call each other best friends, no?
That's thanks to interleague play
who knows how it'll look if the Central League adopts the DH next year.
the Fighters are +18 excluding SoftBank ('the toilet bowl')
so the Fighters are actually the stronger team lol
Then why are the Fighters sitting in 3rd place lol
they kept throwing him at SoftBank over and over and lost streak after streak — now that Yamamoto's off to MLB, there's nobody left who can shut SoftBank down and reel off wins.
throw an average ace-level pitcher at them repeatedly and they'll just get figured out
Yoshinobu's called the best pitcher out there for a reason.
Background and Talking Points
Since Shinjo took the helm in 2022, the buzz has cooled off — summed up neatly by the comment “don’t hear ‘Big Boss’ much these days.” This article’s focus is the team’s head-to-head record against SoftBank; some specific winning-margin figures came up in the thread, but these are individual posters’ own tallies, not confirmed official statistics, so they should be taken with that caveat. Because the Pacific League decides its champion through the Climax Series (CS) after the regular season, missing the pennant doesn’t mean the season is over, and the article itself notes the club may ask Shinjo to stay on regardless. The thread splits between a defense — “with this much of a talent gap, no manager would make a difference” — and criticism aimed at the front office and in-game management, such as neglecting the bullpen; no consensus emerged on whether he should continue.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Newsflash+) thread “[Nippon-Ham] Whispers of Manager Shinjo Hitting His Limit: From “Championship Declaration” to a Harsh Reality.”
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