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 data integrity was the whole discipline. Live MLB figures come straight from the official league API; the Japanese-league seasons, which no clean public feed covers, are seeded and verified by hand. The hardest part was reconciling the two — NPB and MLB don’t record the same stats the same way, so a lot of the work was mapping them onto one honest shape — and when a source genuinely doesn’t carry a value, the cell stays empty instead of pretending it’s a zero.

It’s fully bilingual, Japanese and English, and refreshes on a daily schedule so the numbers stay current.