A lot of baseball fans, particularly Fukuoka Softbank Hawks supporters, can probably recall how good Nobuhiko Matsunaka was during his prime in the early 2000s.

And when they look at him now, they probably think the 37-year-old slugger is done.

They're not necessarily wrong. Matsunaka's been plagued by a series of injuries, especially bad knees, that have limited his base-running and fielding in recent years.