HIDEO NOMO RUMORS & GOSSIP

Bill Hohn has retired after 23 years as a major league umpire and been replaced by Todd Tichenor. Hohn missed the 2011 season because of a back and neck issues. The 56-year-old worked the division series in 1996, 1998 and 2005, and the 1994 All-Star Game. He was behind the plate for Hideo Nomo's no-hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers at Colorado on Sept. 17, 1996. The 35-year...

Bill Hohn has retired after 23 years as a major league umpire and been replaced by Todd Tichenor. Hohn missed the 2011 season because of a back and neck issues. The 56-year-old worked the division series in 1996, 1998 and 2005, and the 1994 All-Star game. He was behind the plate for Hideo Nomo's no-hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers at Colorado on Sept. 17, 1996. The 35-year...

There is a No. 16 Dodgers jersey somewhere in a closet -- or maybe by now it's been confined to a box -- at my parents' home. It hasn't been worn in more than a decade, but it got plenty of wear in its early days. Hideo Nomo arrived with a bang in the United States in 1995, when the 26-year-old rookie pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers won the Rookie of the Year Award...

The Teams OK, team Guernsey. You've gotten through to the final round thanks to big contributions from Jason, MLASC, and Hideo Nomo. Now, the big three commenters from Round 1 will have to face off against each other.St. Peter Port Cllichards Vale Hann'taons Forest Bourdons Hideo Nomo MLASC Jason KarinaOrel Loney Fan Steve K Fred's Brim Rbnlaw Remember, for round two...

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you already know that the Texas Rangers and free agent pitcher Yu Darvish have agreed to a six year 60 million dollar deal. In addition to that money, the Rangers will be sending 51.7 million to Japan for the right to negotiate. So, in effect, the contract is six years and 111.7 million dollars. When you put it in those terms you see the...

Yu Darvish has reportedly officially inked a long-term deal with the Texas Rangers. Now that all of the speculation and assumption has come to fruition, we can officially focus on what this means for your fantasy team. There have been a number of pitchers who have come over from Japan to pitch in the major leagues, so we have a decent sample size of data on such transitions.Unfortunately...

The news that Yu Darvish has finally signed with the Rangers inspired me (again) to do a little digging into the history of Japanese ballplayers in the Major Leagues. Not that we're talking ancient history here. Other than the Giants' 1960s relief pitcher Masanori Murakami, the only major league Japanese players have been playing only since Hideo Nomo found a loophole in...

Real Nomo prepares to sue for defamation. Hello, my name may or may not be Hideo Nomo, and I am honored and grateful to have been elevated (along with my homies-in-crime Baker & Stubbs) from comment section squatter to full-on Son of Steve Garvey. (I just hope Dad knows he has these extra mouths to feed now.) A bit of my history with the Dodgers: I was christened a Dodger...

Former Dodgers owner Peter O'Malley and ex-Los Angeles pitchers Hideo Nomo and Chan Ho Park will run the team's former spring training complex at Dodgertown with minor league baseball's governing body. O'Malley's sister, Terry Seidler, also will operate what is now being called Vero Beach Sports Village together with the National Association of Professional Baseball...

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