L’humiliation de leur première défaite en quart de finale : le manager des Samurai Japan, Hirokazu Ibata, annonce qu’il se retirera après ce tournoi : « Les résultats sont essentiels ».
L’humiliation de leur première défaite en quart de finale : le manager des Samurai Japan, Hirokazu Ibata, annonce qu’il se retirera après ce tournoi : « Les résultats sont essentiels ».
Despite the results whether they’d win or lose the WBC tournament, Samurai Japan change their managers in every edition in the WBC so Hirokazu Ibata stepping down is no surprise at least, here are some of the Samurai Japan managers in every World Baseball Classic edition.
Someone should suggest to the headline writer that getting beat by a Venezuala team whose lineup is top to bottom MLB players is not a humiliation.
UneducatedReviews1
I hate that reporters are taking digs at Japan when the reality is the rest of the countries are just finally stepping up. Japan didn’t get worse, the rest of the competition is just getting better.
This was the goal.
Benigmatica
Now the question is who’s gonna take the mantle.
Wraithfighter
Oh my god. Look, I’m enjoying the WBC a lot, but lets also be real about things: If the two teams are even close to the same level of quality, a single baseball game tells you jack-fucking-shit about who did better.
In the NFL, a bottom-tier team beating the champions is a huge, shocking upset, something that could send shockwaves throughout the league!
This shit just happens. There’s a reason why the World Series is played over 7 games. Take 10% off, this shit is surprising but not a humiliation.
RollTideLucy
No reason to be humiliated…they fought hard. Competition is just tougher.
DenialisaRiver04
Losing to a stacked Venezula team is not embarrasing at all.
Yankeeknickfan
It’s gotta be that he was already stepping down or the players just didn’t like him
Billy_Madison69
Is this guy gonna commit seppukku
Maugrin
It’s their decision, 100%, but I would just say that if great teams replaced their manager every time they lost a big game, we’d run out of qualified candidates pretty quickly.
Results actually aren’t everything in a field like sports that is inherently chaotic. Japan (or any team) controlled less than 50% of the factors that determined the outcome of the game. Venezuela controlled just as many factors, plus the random stuff neither team controls. It’s almost disrespectful in my mind to make the outcome all about whatever set of jerseys you care about. Venezuela’s lineup was just as good as Japan’s and they’re allowed to have a great game without it being Japan’s fault.
We see bigger upsets in the MLB regular season all the time, frankly.
MelissaMiranti
He called for a sacrifice bunt with Ohtani coming up next. That intentional walk was the most foreseeable thing in the world.
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Despite the results whether they’d win or lose the WBC tournament, Samurai Japan change their managers in every edition in the WBC so Hirokazu Ibata stepping down is no surprise at least, here are some of the Samurai Japan managers in every World Baseball Classic edition.
* 2006 WBC: Sadaharu Oh
* 2009 WBC: Tatsunori Hara
* 2013 WBC: Koji Yamamoto
* 2017 WBC: Hiroki Kokubo
* 2023 WBC: Hideki Kuriyama
* 2026 WBC: Hirokazu Ibata
Someone should suggest to the headline writer that getting beat by a Venezuala team whose lineup is top to bottom MLB players is not a humiliation.
I hate that reporters are taking digs at Japan when the reality is the rest of the countries are just finally stepping up. Japan didn’t get worse, the rest of the competition is just getting better.
This was the goal.
Now the question is who’s gonna take the mantle.
Oh my god. Look, I’m enjoying the WBC a lot, but lets also be real about things: If the two teams are even close to the same level of quality, a single baseball game tells you jack-fucking-shit about who did better.
In the NFL, a bottom-tier team beating the champions is a huge, shocking upset, something that could send shockwaves throughout the league!
In Baseball, its called [August 18, 2025](https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/COL/COL202508180.shtml) and [August 20, 2025](https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/COL/COL202508200.shtml).
This shit just happens. There’s a reason why the World Series is played over 7 games. Take 10% off, this shit is surprising but not a humiliation.
No reason to be humiliated…they fought hard. Competition is just tougher.
Losing to a stacked Venezula team is not embarrasing at all.
It’s gotta be that he was already stepping down or the players just didn’t like him
Is this guy gonna commit seppukku
It’s their decision, 100%, but I would just say that if great teams replaced their manager every time they lost a big game, we’d run out of qualified candidates pretty quickly.
Results actually aren’t everything in a field like sports that is inherently chaotic. Japan (or any team) controlled less than 50% of the factors that determined the outcome of the game. Venezuela controlled just as many factors, plus the random stuff neither team controls. It’s almost disrespectful in my mind to make the outcome all about whatever set of jerseys you care about. Venezuela’s lineup was just as good as Japan’s and they’re allowed to have a great game without it being Japan’s fault.
We see bigger upsets in the MLB regular season all the time, frankly.
He called for a sacrifice bunt with Ohtani coming up next. That intentional walk was the most foreseeable thing in the world.