🇯🇵Japanese high school student Shotaro Morii has decided to try his hand at MLB. He’s a shortstop who hit 45 home runs in high school and can throw the ball up to 95 mph as a pitcher. He currently has offers from four teams and is planning to sign a minor league contract.
September 20, 2024
🇯🇵Japanese high school student Shotaro Morii has decided to try his hand at MLB. He’s a shortstop who hit 45 home runs in high school and can throw the ball up to 95 mph as a pitcher. He currently has offers from four teams and is planning to sign a minor league contract.
This is a good litmus test for the Dodgers’ attempt to become Japan West.
Good for him, if he’s really willing to uproot his life and try to live in America. I know Rintaro Sasaki is also stateside but he’s here for school too. Sounds like Morii is just jumping straight to (minor league) pro ball?
Get ready to learn BBQ-ese, buddy
The first of many articles before he announces the inevitable Dodgers signing
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The Dodgers can’t keep getting away with this!! (They can)
Samurai Los Angeles 📈📈📈
He’ll end up a Dodger sadly
Preller: Did somebody say shortstop? 👀
The translated article doesn’t say what teams could sign him though.
Also, there’s no clear break between paragraphs at all.
I love the fact that Yahoo Japan still uses the 1996 red YaHoo! logo.
He’s probably on a flight to Toronto.
A man after Zack Greinke’s heart
Now what is that logo on his hat lol? It’s just like high school football teams in the US which copy from college or NFL franchises but recolor them.
Considering MLB teams haven’t been able to competently develop an Asian prospect for nearly 20 years, my hopes are not high.
Cool! Good luck to him.
The Dodgers do have needs at the position.
> At Toho, he was a regular third baseman from the summer of his first year. He has been a shortstop since the fall of his second year. He is 183 cm tall and weighs 88 kg. He is a right-handed pitcher and left-handed batter.
(translated text)
So, is he a 3B, SS, or pitcher? I can’t tell. Sounds like a shortstop who can throw hard, but not really *pitch* (Oneil Cruz, Elly De La Cruz).
Gaints can help him boost the contract price
Oh cool! Another star player that we’ll most likely dance around for months only to have him go to the Dodgers after using us for leverage.
Please come to Philly. I’d love to get a Japanese stud to come here. It just takes one to make us an attractive market for them.
Congrats Dodgers. Maybe we can keep adames
Mets please 🥺
Why isn’t he subject to the J2 international signing process?
Or is that what he’s doing and OP just didn’t explain anything?
Ohtani is doing for Japanese players in the 2020s what Ichiro did for Japanese players in the 2000s. It’s beautiful to see baseball spread and become a cultural icon to our neighbors across the ocean.
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This is a good litmus test for the Dodgers’ attempt to become Japan West.
Good for him, if he’s really willing to uproot his life and try to live in America. I know Rintaro Sasaki is also stateside but he’s here for school too. Sounds like Morii is just jumping straight to (minor league) pro ball?
Get ready to learn BBQ-ese, buddy
The first of many articles before he announces the inevitable Dodgers signing
[deleted]
The Dodgers can’t keep getting away with this!! (They can)
Samurai Los Angeles 📈📈📈
He’ll end up a Dodger sadly
Preller: Did somebody say shortstop? 👀
The translated article doesn’t say what teams could sign him though.
Also, there’s no clear break between paragraphs at all.
I love the fact that Yahoo Japan still uses the 1996 red YaHoo! logo.
He’s probably on a flight to Toronto.
A man after Zack Greinke’s heart
Now what is that logo on his hat lol? It’s just like high school football teams in the US which copy from college or NFL franchises but recolor them.
Considering MLB teams haven’t been able to competently develop an Asian prospect for nearly 20 years, my hopes are not high.
Cool! Good luck to him.
The Dodgers do have needs at the position.
> At Toho, he was a regular third baseman from the summer of his first year. He has been a shortstop since the fall of his second year. He is 183 cm tall and weighs 88 kg. He is a right-handed pitcher and left-handed batter.
(translated text)
So, is he a 3B, SS, or pitcher? I can’t tell. Sounds like a shortstop who can throw hard, but not really *pitch* (Oneil Cruz, Elly De La Cruz).
Gaints can help him boost the contract price
Oh cool! Another star player that we’ll most likely dance around for months only to have him go to the Dodgers after using us for leverage.
Please come to Philly. I’d love to get a Japanese stud to come here. It just takes one to make us an attractive market for them.
Congrats Dodgers. Maybe we can keep adames
Mets please 🥺
Why isn’t he subject to the J2 international signing process?
Or is that what he’s doing and OP just didn’t explain anything?
Ohtani is doing for Japanese players in the 2020s what Ichiro did for Japanese players in the 2000s.
It’s beautiful to see baseball spread and become a cultural icon to our neighbors across the ocean.
Anyone but the dodgers anyone but the dodgers