Daisuke Matsuzaka returned home on Wednesday, solidifying a deal to spend his 20th season in pro baseball with the Saitama Seibu Lions, the club he spent Year 1 with back in 1999.
While the reunion angle is nice and all, Matsuzaka's signing is also a reminder there are still a few members of the famed "Matsuzaka Generation" still kicking around Japanese pro ball.
The moniker was given to the group of players born between April 2, 1980 and April 1, 1981, which put them in or around the same high school class as Matsuzaka, who shot to superstardom during the 1998 Summer Koshien. They all entered NPB between 1998 and the early 2000s.
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