The Associated Press on MSN14d
Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old 2-way player, bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics
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 to a ...
Athletics signee Shotaro Morii is charting a rare path for Japanese baseball players
Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with ...
CBS News15d
Top prospect Shotaro Morii bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball ... Athletics that includes a signing bonus of $1,510,500. Top Japanese players traditionally have signed first with Nippon Professional ...
U.S. News & World Report15d
Shotaro Morii, 18-Year-Old 2-Way Player, Bypasses Japanese Baseball to Sign With Athletics
Shotaro Morii, 18-Year-Old 2-Way Player, Bypasses Japanese Baseball to Sign With Athletics Hoping to ... traditionally have signed first with Nippon Professional Baseball clubs and established ...
朝日新聞社8d
BASEBALL/ Aichi man recalls 'no ordinary boy’ later known to world as ‘Ichiro’
After graduation, he went on to play for the Orix BlueWave, a Nippon Professional Baseball ... the game between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics at Tokyo Dome in March 2019, the last ...
Today8d
Ichiro Suzuki becomes first Asian player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
Ichiro racked up 3,089 hits in MLB after already having played nine years in Japan ... against the Oakland Athletics. Ichiro was also voted this month into the Japanese Baseball Hall of ...
Orange County Register9d
Ichiro Suzuki, about to be a Hall of Famer, means more than baseball to Japan
TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home ... 2019 in the Tokyo Dome against the then Oakland Athletics, going 0 for 5 for the Mariners ...
ABC News15d
Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old 2-way player, bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball ... Athletics that includes a signing bonus of $1,510,500. Top Japanese players traditionally have signed first with Nippon Professional ...
Buffalo News9d
Ichiro is about to get his Hall of Fame moment. For Japan, he's more than just a baseball star
Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan ... Tokyo Dome against the Athletics, going 0 for 5 ...
ABC7 San Francisco15d
2-way player Shotaro Morii, 18, bypasses Japan baseball to sign with A's
Top Japanese players traditionally have signed first with Nippon Professional Baseball ... with the Arizona Complex League Athletics. "He's a very talented baseball player with enough athleticism ...