The 2007 Pacific League season opens March 24, and it promises to be another exciting campaign leading to the loop's "Climax Series" of postseason playoffs involving the top three finishers in October.
Yu Darvish is hoping to fire the Fighters back into the Japan Series.
KYODO PHOTOHalf the league's teams have American managers, and it will be interesting to see if one of them can win the Japan Series and make it three years in a row for Japan's champions to be guided by a foreigner.
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