Japan pro baseball's hottest team through the middle of Golden Week was the Yokohama BayStars, riding a five-game winning streak and standing in first place, albeit by percentage points, in the Central League pennant race.
Is this not the team that finished sixth and last in the 2006 CL standings?
Is this not the club which has no foreign position players and only two active non-Japanese pitchers?
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