Fenway
07-12-2007, 02:43 PM
some telling parts in this article
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/07/12/glare_aside_matsuzaka_feels_at_home/?page=full
The ground rules here are different from what Matsuzaka knew in Japan. Nothing apparently has upset him more than when a Reuters photographer recently clicked a picture of his toddler daughter at Fenway Park and posted it on the wire, where it was picked up by both the Boston Herald and Boston.com (http://boston.com/). Never mind that at the All-Star Game in San Francisco this week, the Sox All-Stars with kids -- David Ortiz, Manny Ramírez, fellow Japanese pitcher Hideki Okajima, and Mike Lowell -- had them on the field, cameras clicking. Matsuzaka is adamant that his child be kept out of the public eye.
"I think the biggest challenge so far has been my goal to protect my privacy and my family's privacy," said Matsuzaka, whose parents and in-laws have come from Japan to see him here. "It's an important objective, but also one that is very challenging.
Still he has impressed overall
Only three major leaguers have won more games. Beckett and the Indians' C.C. Sabathia have a dozen wins apiece, while John Lackey of the Angels has 11. Matsuzaka is fifth in the majors with 123 strikeouts, sixth in strikeouts per nine innings with 9.25. He leads the Sox in pitches thrown (1,977), and only Carlos Zambrano of the Cubs has averaged more pitches per start (111.95 to 109.83).
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/07/12/glare_aside_matsuzaka_feels_at_home/?page=full
The ground rules here are different from what Matsuzaka knew in Japan. Nothing apparently has upset him more than when a Reuters photographer recently clicked a picture of his toddler daughter at Fenway Park and posted it on the wire, where it was picked up by both the Boston Herald and Boston.com (http://boston.com/). Never mind that at the All-Star Game in San Francisco this week, the Sox All-Stars with kids -- David Ortiz, Manny Ramírez, fellow Japanese pitcher Hideki Okajima, and Mike Lowell -- had them on the field, cameras clicking. Matsuzaka is adamant that his child be kept out of the public eye.
"I think the biggest challenge so far has been my goal to protect my privacy and my family's privacy," said Matsuzaka, whose parents and in-laws have come from Japan to see him here. "It's an important objective, but also one that is very challenging.
Still he has impressed overall
Only three major leaguers have won more games. Beckett and the Indians' C.C. Sabathia have a dozen wins apiece, while John Lackey of the Angels has 11. Matsuzaka is fifth in the majors with 123 strikeouts, sixth in strikeouts per nine innings with 9.25. He leads the Sox in pitches thrown (1,977), and only Carlos Zambrano of the Cubs has averaged more pitches per start (111.95 to 109.83).