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Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old 2-way player, bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics
Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish and others in MLB helped him make his decision, Morii responded in English: “Yes, of course." Matsui, a three-time MVP of Japan's Central League, played for Oakland in ...
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Appreciating the singular Ichiro Suzuki, who fell a single vote shy of unanimous Hall of Fame induction
Coming into that contest in Oakland, Ichiro had 12 hits in his ... more conventional hitters making the leap -- hitters like Hideki Matsui, Seiya Suzuki, and, yes, Ohtani -- did so with fewer ...
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Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old 2-way player, bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics
Asked whether the success of Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish and others in MLB helped him make his decision, Morii responded in English: “Yes, of course." Matsui, a three-time ...
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2-way player Shotaro Morii, 18, bypasses Japan baseball to sign with A's
Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish and others in MLB helped him make his decision, Morii responded in English: "Yes, of course." Matsui, a three-time MVP of Japan's Central League, played for Oakland in ...
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Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old two-way player, bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics
Asked whether the success of Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish and others ... MVP of Japan’s Central League, played for Oakland in 2011. “This team has history,” Morii ...
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Ichiro Suzuki, about to be a Hall of Famer, means more than baseball to Japan
Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after ... He played his last two games in 2019 in the Tokyo Dome against the then Oakland Athletics, going 0 for 5 for the ...