Yes, I’m aware Cuba is not in Asia, but any time a 21 year old left hander touching 102 MPH defects, it gets top billing on a baseball site. Chapman is arguably the biggest non-MLB baseball talent in the world (only Darvish comes close), and this is a big story.
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You might know Jason Giambi.  He was the 2000 AL MVP, is a five-time All-Star and two-time Silver Slugger award winner.   He’s hit 406 home runs in his career. And there was that little juice issue we heard about now and again.
Yet none of this earned him a spot on the radar of recent [...]

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The Pirates signed their third Taiwanese high school player this week, this time inking Shiyuan HS staff ace Hung Sheng-Chin to minor league contract. Hung is an 18 year old 5′11, 158 pound RHP that touches 90 but sits in the mid to high 80’s. He works in a mid-70’s curve and change-up [...]

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This could be a very big deal for baseball in Asia. The groundwork for a new professional baseball league based in Australia, set to start play in November of 2010, that could include other Asian cities.
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Could this be the beginnings of the Pacific Rim wide league we here at EWC have always thought might just [...]

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