This is more or less a followup to the chit chat about teams scouting in Asia. I found an interesting article in the Arizona Republic detailing the Diamondbacks forays into the foreign market. Specifically Asia. Fortunately the writer refrains from calling it an Asian Market.
This quote by an unnamed national league scout sets up the [...]

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The Seattle Mariners signed Japanese catcher Kenji Johjima prior to the 2006 season for one reason: stability.
The 2005 Mariners catching carousel featured seven different backstops, and the results were appalling. Along with stability, Johjima ended up bringing above average offense and defense, and was the second most durable catcher in the league. Kenji’s solid [...]

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Taking a break from reading about whether or not Fukudome is gonna sign with some team or another?  Winter meetings not getting things done? Tired of living in hotels and ready to get home to your wife and kids after that long trip scouting? Thinking about putting your computer to better use, possibly [...]

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Anyone fortunate enough to find themselves in East Taiwan — even those not  baseball obsessed like the editors of this website — owes it to themselves to visit the Hong Yeh Museum about 60 km Northwest of Taitung.It is a fascinating commemoration of the real-life Taiwanese Bad News Bears, an elementary school named Hong Yeh [...]

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