Pacific Pulse

I grew up following baseball on both sides of the Pacific, and the last few years have been a golden age for Japanese players in the majors — Ohtani, Yamamoto, Senga, and a deep bench behind them. Keeping up with all of them, though, meant checking a dozen box scores and quietly translating between two baseball cultures that don’t quite map onto each other.

Pacific Pulse puts them in one place: who’s on a roster, how they’re doing game to game, and the milestones as they happen. Each player gets a page with their latest line and a bit of story, while the home view keeps the whole group together so you can follow the season at a glance instead of hunting for it.

How it’s built — A stats site only works if the numbers are right, so accuracy is the whole discipline. The MLB figures come straight from the official league API; the Japanese-league seasons are seeded and checked by hand; and when a source simply doesn’t carry a value, the cell stays empty instead of pretending it’s a zero. It runs in both Japanese and English, refreshes once a day on a schedule, and is a Next.js app on Vercel backed by Postgres.