Takashi Saito plans to throw a sushi and beef bowl party during spring training

Yes, I’m sure most of the players like beef and I’m sure several like sushi.

Americans do each side dishes with their food. Rice would be one of them that is very popular. It would be very rare for someone to just get a pound of beef thrown on their table and have nothing else to eat with it as a side dish, at most restaurants.

Fried chicken is great, so I’m sure most people in general like it. Just because they are baseball players don’t mean they all like the same things as a group.

ballplayers will chase their healthy breakfast training table with two bottles of beer, lunch with another two bottles, and dinner with two glasses of scotch. Cigars are prohibited until after windsprints.

that plenty of baseball players like sushi, and a large majority of people love beef, whether as a big steak or sliced up and served with rice, which is also fairly popular, but not as popular as in Asia

Its really good. French fries are a more common side dish with meat than rice here, but we do have a ton of Asian restaurants and most people enjoy Asian food, including sushi.
As far as spring training goes, I wouldn’t know how to compare it to Japan, but it is certainly light at first, as they do not want to fatigue the players early. Our closer only threw 5 innings during spring training last year and the coaches didn’t care. It was enough for him to be ready for the season anyway.

“Is spring training in US less strict than in Japan?”

I think Kirk Gibson’s camp is likely to be stricter and tougher than most. I was just reading he sent a letter to the players in the off-season. “I wrote in my letter if they weren’t in shape they would have a tough spring, and if they were in shape they’d have a tough spring,” Gibson said.

I think I did read on a player’s twitter that he was eating sushi somewhere, but I can’t find it immediately. I imagine players’ tastes vary as much as anyone else’s! In the US, potatoes of one form or another (mashed, french fries, etc) are generally the main accompaniment for beef, but rice is by no means unusual.

Good to hear Saito is reaching out to his team-mates, we look forward to having him on the Diamondbacks. If you see anything else like this, we’d love to hear about it – thanks for sharing it with us!

Do baseball players like sushi or beef at all? All the articles i read usually say baseball players love fried chickens like that one article about Boston Red Sox players who always eat fried chickens at the clubhouse.

You need to be at the LSB tailgate

I know that a few of our pitchers have talked about going out to sushi restaurants before, so I’m sure they’d be up for it.

Different people like different foods in America- some people like a good steak, some people like beef and rice, and some people (like myself) enjoy both.

I know Saito’s teammate Barry Enright loves sushi, so this would go over very well with him :)