The Pirates have signed their second position player out of Taiwan High school this year, inking first baseman/pitcher Hsu Chi-wei.  The 17 year-old lefty stands at 5′11 and throws in the low 80’s.  Taiwan Baseball has more here.

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Last night I had an interesting talk with an professor of economics from UC Santa Cruz. He’s here teaching a summer class at a university in Seoul and was in Busan with a mutual friend. Economics and baseball cross paths often, something I realized a few years ago when economists like Andrew Zimbalist kept popping [...]

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With an eye on the Futures Game rosters, Baseball Digest Daily takes a look back at an Asian prospects list it compiled earlier this year. Funny enough, a few of us that were scouting a tournament last week came across the original list and talked about it for a good 30 minutes. There’s no right [...]

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I usually go to PopSeoul when I need some Korean pop music news to joke about, but I’ve always gotten the impression that the creators are more savvy than the content would sometimes indicate. Heck, I write about guys who take their shirts off at baseball games, so what am I going on about?

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I’ve been following the box scores of the GCL Pirates over the past week or so, waiting to see the names of Rinku and Dinesh. The closest thing I’ve found is Mpho’ Gift Ngoepe, the South African the Pirates signed last year. Incidentally, he’s 3-for-12 and is usually hitting leadoff.

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