Nippon Professional Baseball merged with the Orix BlueWave and were replaced by the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Until 1993, baseball was the only team sport played professionally in Japan. In that year, the J.League professional soccer league was founded. The new soccer league placed teams in prefectural capitals around the country—rather than clustering them in and around Tokyo—and the teams were named after their locations rather than after corporate sponsors. The wave of players moving to Major League Baseball, which began with Hideo Nomo "retiring" from the Kintetsu Buffaloes, then signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has also added to the financial problems.
Tyler Green (baseball) World Series games in history. After a short stint in the minor leagues which included a no-hitter vs. Ottawa on July 4, Tyler made his Major League debut as a member of the 1993 National League Champion Phillies, where he joined a pitching staff that included Curt Schilling, Terry Mulholland and "Wild Thing" Mitch Williams. “Macho Row” members Lenny Dykstra, Darren Daulton and John Kruk also led that team. Green’s best season was in 1995, where he was in the running for Rookie of the Year along with Hideo Nomo and after back to back complete game shutouts against the