For MLB fans, it’s an exciting time of year again as the off-season deck of player cards reshuffles itself, and the list of eligible free agents from Japan comes hot off the presses, with MLB teams are ready to snatch a new crop of Japanese players up as free agents. Let’s see who’s on the [...]

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You can get off the ledge Dodger fans, as Park Chan-ho, in an announcement on his fan site, has said he’ll decline L.A.’s one-year offer in order to play for the Korean national team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Cue the violins.
From www.chanhopark61.com (in Korean):
After giving long and deep thought to the matter, I concluded that [...]

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By winning the central league MVP award this week Yomiuri Giants third baseman Michihiro Ogasawara became the first player to win consecutive awards in different leagues, putting an exclamation point on a season that saw him hit .313 with 31 homers and 88 RBIs in 142 games.
Yu Darvish won the Pacific League MVP award, becoming [...]

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MLB Trade Rumors  is reporting the Cleveland Indians have become the first major league team to dip into the Japanese market, inking Kobayash Masahide to a 2-year deal, with an option for 2010.
Ironically we’ve been putting the finishing touches on an East Windup Breakdown of Kobayashi, which we’ll post in the next day or two.
This [...]

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