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Every Yankees Japanese player through the years, from Hideki Irabu to Masahiro TanakaHideki Matsui broke the mold of Japanese baseball players moving to MLB when he arrived on the scene for the Yankees in 2003.
Along the way, Ohtani became the first Japanese-born player to score a regular-season run at the Tokyo Dome since former New York Yankees star Hideki Matsui in 2004. In fairness, Major League ...
The Yankees have become the Ellis Island of the major leagues, the landing point in America for international stars such as Contreras and Hideki Matsui. The first wave of immigrants, led by Hideki ...
The 28-year-old Matsui becomes the second Japanese player to join the Yankees in the past several years, following Hideki Irabu, who pitched for New York from 1997-99. Cashman spent much of ...
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