Jan. 20, 2025 17:39 PM EST
TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan.
Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific buoyed the nation as Japan's economy sputtered through the so-called lost decades of...
Jan. 15, 2025 22:23 PM EST
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed Wednesday to a minor league contract with the Athletics that includes a signing bonus of $1,510,500.
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