In our inaugural East Windup Chronicle fantasy league the team run by yours truly, the Ulsan Fish Hooks, recently nabbed Dodger phenom Clayton Kershaw with the No. 1 waiver pick. It’s not an understatement to say Jackson Broder (No. 2 waiver pick) was crushed. After a two week surge that saw his team climb from […]

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Considering it was a priority in my life for a bunch of years, I’ve done relatively little travelling in Korea. Prior to working in scouting I’d been to Seoul exactly three times. I’ve been there six times since March. With my then girlfriend in grad school, or, I should say, a grad school in Korea, […]

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Interesting acquisition by the Padres bringing in Busan’s Baek Cha-seung. I don’t think Baek ever got a proper chance in Seattle. Toward the end of 2006 he was flirting with the No. 5 spot in the rotation, but then the went and signed Jeff Weaver for 2007. He was put in the rotation in late April, and got 11 […]

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For those of you living in the US or Canada I want to point out the June 19 airing of a documentary — Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story — about a 13-year-old Japanese girl abducted by North Korean spies on her way home from school. The film played at several film festivals and won a […]

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