Asians In Baseball

Asians in Baseball were RAKING this week! Let’s discuss: 1:06 - Our position players went HAM this week! Three guys hit elusive triples, IKF executes a true steal of home, Tommy Edman smacks a 2-out grand slam, Travis d’Arnaud’s 100th homer is a moonshot, and Corbin Carroll stays elite. 24:56 - We offer the Asians in Baseball bump to some of our pitchers, Dane Dunning gets another W, Bryan Woo is...

Another day, another impressive showing of Asians in Baseball!  1:10 - Keep voting to send our guys to the All-Star Game!  6:14 - McCormick Spices sends Lars Nootbaar a special get well soon gift 7:31 - Corbin Carroll is helping launch the Dbacks to a huge season, Rob Refsnyder signs an extension with the Red Sox, Tommy Pham has found his stride, multiple players flash the leather to get their tea...

Crank the air conditioning, because Asians in Baseball are STAYING HOT. 0:49 - All-Star Game voting is open, and there are so many Asians to vote for!  1:39 - Position players are ON FIRE. Isiah Kiner-Falefa is shining as a power hitter, guys all over the league were making leaping and diving plays, and NINE players are batting well over 300 in their last 7 games. 13:15 - Ohtani talk! He has his v...

This month to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Asian hosted podcasts, we’re bringing you an episode from Asian Americana, one of our sister podcasts from the Potluck Podcast Collective where host Quincy Surasmith explores the slices of distinctly Asian American culture and history. The episode we’re featuring is an exploration of Kala Bagai, a South Asian woman who immigrated to...

This month to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Asian hosted podcasts, we’re bringing you an episode from They Call Us Bruce, one of our sister podcasts from the Potluck Podcast Collective. They Call Us Bruce is hosted by Asian American community mainstays Phil Yu (also known as the Angry Asian Man) and Jeff Yang (prolific writer and celebrity dad), who, along with a guest or two...

AAPI Heritage Month isn’t over yet! This week gave us lots of opportunities to talk about representation in MLB - both positive and negative. 0:48 - Corbin Carroll and Mark Mathias join the Asians in Baseball roster, Steven Kwan continues to proudly rep the AAPI community, and we were pleasantly surprised by the Guardians’ thoughtful AAPI Heritage celebrations. 15:52 - Tommy Edman and Blake Sabol...

We’re a quarter of the way through the season, and Asians in Baseball cannot be stopped!  0:51 - Lars Nootbaar and his mom Kumi are besties  6:13 - Three Asians made Brian Kenny’s all-MLB team! 8:13 - How are position players doing this week? Amazing, as usual. Steven Kwan receives his Gold Glove from last season and then makes a case for a Silver Slugger, Seiya Suzuki beats Ohtani to a home run r...

Days are getting longer and bats are getting hotter for Asians in Baseball! 1:21 - The Pirates actually have another Asian on their roster, none other than PIKACHU 6:36 - 2024 Korea series?!?! Dodgers Padres?! Will the Dodgers finally get another Asian player?! 19:03 - In position player news, things are looking up! Kolten Wong and Christian Yelich got the Asians in Baseball bump, and though Macho...

It’s AAPI Heritage Month, and Asians in Baseball are kicking May off with a bang! 1:16 - Last week we forgot one of our favorite Choi Ji Man flexes: having Gerrit Cole’s number 5:47 - Happy AAPI Heritage Month, but do not read the comments!  10:17 - Position players are on a tear: Masataka Yoshida has a 13-game hitting streak, Connor Wong goes 4-for-4 with two HR, Anthony Volpe is 10-for-10 in SB,...

The full crew is back, and it was a wild week for Asians in Baseball, with ups and downs and injuries and celebrations: 2:18 - Masataka Yoshida quiets hyper-critical Red Sox fans with a TWO HOME RUN INNING, and Anthony Volpe had a rough weekend and Yankees fans…actually understood and supported him?!  11:28 - Connor Joe’s bat stays hot, Blake Sabol is down to his last strike and WALKS IT OFF, and...

It’s a relatively quick episode this week! Recapping some epic plays from our fam plus a pitching debut from one of our favs.  3:35 — WBC Pool A* MVP Yu Chang hits his first homer for the season ✨ 4:48 — Our boys are back from the IL. Tatchan aka Lars Nootbaar hits his first homer for the season as well as Seiya Suzuki 🥰 7:29 — Connor Joe started the year on the IL but has made a splash back and...

There were only four days of baseball between last week’s recording and this week’s, but boy were they a big four days! 1:27 - Sean Manaea and Blake Sabol make history as the first Samoan battery in MLB! 3:40 - Choi Ji Man and Bae Ji Hwan make history as the first Korean-born teammates to both homer in an MLB game! 8:00 - In position player news: Kim Ha Seong is on fire, Connor Wong comes through...

Opening week has come and gone, and the Asians in MLB CAME IN HOT! 2:11 - First up, debuts! Masataka Yoshida rides his success from the WBC right into his first week of major league play 8:11 - Anthony Volpe’s highly anticipated debut does not disappoint 12:00 - How much are MLB and the clubs talking about race? 17:38 - Bae Ji Hwan is flashing leather and hitting bombs already 24:10 - Blake Sabol...

BASEBALL IS BACK, BABY!! Our first episode of the 2023 season has to be about none other than the jaw-dropping World Baseball Classic, where Asians in Baseball represented at every single stage, right down to the final strike.  A little breakdown of what we talk about in this beefy episode: 2:02 - Four Asian teams in the WBC! 7:51 - Asian players represented on Team USA (Kyle Higashioka) and Team...

After some recaps of trades tracking our Asians in Baseball players, we decided to have our own Awards Episode for the 2022 season. We have our MVP (The Shohei Ohtani Award), Cy Young (Hideo Nomo Award), Best Ass, Gotcha Moment, and several others. Sure, the MLB has some awards, but our Asians in Baseball Awards will overpower those soon enough. Let Asians in Baseball excellence shine! 

We have some thoughts about this year's awards. And we preview some of the matchups in Group B of the World Baseball Classic coming up. Trade rumors? Got any? Need any? Let us know. 

There may not be any Asians left in the Postseason, but there's still plenty to talk about!  The Shohei stove is already getting hot with rumors  MLB cancels the Korea Series Steven Kwan wins his first Gold Glove!  And we have a new "Pull An Asian" segment, where we try to pull an Asian player out of a new deck of baseball cards!  This episode sponsored by Audible Theater prese...

After a fabulous year of Asians in Baseball, we’ve reached the end of the line this season. But the legacies live on! *Naomi is back and reports on Kim Ha Seong’s continued presence in South Korea. *How many Asian Americans even know there are Asian/Asian American superstars in MLB? *And we offer some free marketing ideas for teams that are simply not tapping into their Asian fan potential! Edit:...

WHAT A DIVISION SERIES. *Steven Kwan holds his own against the Yankees until the bitter end *Yu Darvish and Kim Ha Seong have strong contributions to the Padres advancing to the NLCS *Dave Roberts and the Dodgers fall yet again in the early Postseason *And speaking of the Yankees, special guest Nate joins us this week to discuss his Yankees fandom and Asians in Athletics on the whole! Connect with...

It’s tiiime for Asians in POSTSEASON Baseball! The regular season and the wild card have come and gone, but we’ll be here weekly with a recap of our boys who are holding it down in October 🤩 In this week's episode, the Division Series: Travis d'Arnaud leads it off for Asians in Postseason Baseball with a 3 RBI game vs the Phils, we bid adieu to the Asians whose teams were eliminated in the WC, th...

While we're on a little break in preparation for all the October madness, we are airing this conversation from Scott's kitchen that took place back in May. The Angels were hot (haha!), and we were reflecting on some of the pioneers of Asians in Baseball, Mike Lum and Len Sakata. A lot of this conversation holds up today, but our hopes for any success with the Angels...let's just say oops. We'll be...

Congratulations are in order this week! Dave Roberts’ Dodgers become the first MLB team to clinch 2022 playoff berth AND their division (not to mention, they are the winningest team in baseball). The Dodgers have made it to the postseason every season Dave has managed - no small feat, and on top of that, he’s the first Asian and second Black manager to ever win a World Series title. Speaking of gr...

You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and then you have…this week in Asians in Baseball! The good: Yu Darvish hits a massive milestone of 3000 career strikeouts across NPB and MLB, being only the second player !EVER! to do so. How iconic is this feat? The other pitcher that holds this distinction is…Hideo Nomo. The bad: A few of our guys are struggling on the mound, so we attemp...

We've got a double header episode! (We skipped last week, so this week is like two episodes in one...that's not what a double header is, but you get it.) In the week(s) in review, Asians in Baseball are absolutely crushing it. Kim Ha Seong and Steven Kwan make Gold Glove-level catches in left field foul territory, Lars Nootbaar leads *ALL* MLB in OPS, and Ohtani bests fellow AL MVP candidate Aaron...

Not as much going on this week with Asians in Baseball, but the stuff we do have to talk about is BIG. It looks like our guy Kim Ha-seong will continue to be the everyday shortstop for the Padres through the rest of the season, Ohtani makes history yet again with his 10th win of the year, and we get into how we think the AL MVP race will shake out. What makes a Most Valuable Player anyway?? In the...