The feeling itself, it is the same. I don't really add the statistics that I had in Japan and the home runs here.
"NPB"
* 9× Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series/All-Star (1994–2002)
* 3× Japan Series champion (1994 Japan Series/1994, 2000 Japan Series/2000, 2002 Japan Series/2002)
* 3× Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award/CL MVP (1996, 2000, 2002)
* 8× Best Nine Award (1995–2002)
* 3× Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series/NPB All-Star Game MVP (1995, 1998, 1999)
* 2× Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize (2000, 2003)
* Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award/Japan Series MVP (2000)
* Matsutaro Shoriki Award (2000)
"MLB"
* 2× Major League Baseball All-Star Game/All-Star (2003 Major League Baseball All-Star Game/2003, 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game/2004)
* World Series champion ()
* World Series Most Valuable Player Award/World Series MVP (2009)
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is a Japanese people/Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played baseball in Japan and the United States. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
More Hideki Matsui on Wikipedia.The third one was high in the strike zone. I have my strategy against left-handers.
[Conversation of the day: Yogi Berra with Hideki Matsui - without a translator.] It was in Japanese, always Japanese, ... Yogi just likes to joke around with me.
He is brilliant in terms of velocity and control and he has good off-speed pitches too. Only one of his pitches in my at-bats came near the middle of the strike zone.
Perhaps my father will be pretty happy if I give it to him.
It was pretty huge, ... As a result, Jason hit the home run and we were able to win the game.
When I first started out professionally in Japan, I had a number in mind, maybe 500, 600 or 700, ... but not anymore.
Luis got a little too aggressive.
It didn't seem like they were looking for the ball. That's when I heard my teammates yelling.
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