Japanese pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma

Hisashi Iwakuna and his high prct of groundball outs. He got the Sawamura Award and the Pacific League MVP in 2008 after posting a 21-4 record with a 1.87 ERA. He was the first 20 game winner in the Pacific League since 2003, and won nearly one-third of his teams games that season.

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[mwxiao]

He should have been the MVP for WBC 09!!

[seaboatsk]

Thank you for posting the video. Iwakuma

is one of the best pitchers in the world. In a game with Cuba at WBC, he took outs with 15 grounders out of 18 outs for 6 innings. His fastball is still around 95 mph.

[crazymanjonchin]

@ekacupaj WELL too bad you mother fucking yankee ass

Mariners got him

just like we got Montero

[mohammadzafar]

ground ball pitcher + safeco field = good news for mariner fans :)

[TheDonGiggity]

Good call Mariners!

[DaTwoNinja]

@mohammadzafar marinersngona get wrer so lucky to even get japanese imports. now adays there hard to come by.

[DaTwoNinja]

Groundball picthers saves energy . On the last inning they will throw heat at ya.

[mohammadzafar]

@Strikeout18 - no, because there was no one on base that time. He pitches differently out of the stretch. And that still wudnt be a balk because he is committed to throw a pitch, if he stops in the middle and throws to first base, then def thats illegal.

[mohammadzafar]

he is an unrestricted free agent..i watched him at the wbc, he was as composed as one can get. gr8 pitcher!

[yougo258]

Hisashi Iwakuma is far better than Matsuzaka.

Toshiya Sugiuchi(Fukuoka Softbank Hawks) is also Amazing.

They could be cy young winners if they want to play in MLB.

[ekacupaj]

yankees need a starter like this :)

we just missed out on jimenez

[MACHIN3K1NG]

I heard the Astros plus a few other teams were looking to sign him as of recently