Top prospect Shotaro Morii bypasses Japanese baseball
Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old two-way player, bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed Wednesday to a minor league contract with the Athletics that includes a signing bonus of $1,510,500.
The Athletics made waves to kick off the 2025 international signing period, inking 18-year-old two-way player Shotaro Morii ...
Pitcher Roki Sasaki is set to come onto the market after the international free agent signing period opens on Jan. 15. He’s ...
Infielder/outfielder Tyler Nevin is heading overseas to sign with the Seibu Lions of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball, per multiple reports out of Japan. Salary figures have not been ...
Ichiro Suzuki, who had a total of 4,367 hits between Japan and the United States, was announced as one of the newest members ...
Slugging corner infielder Munetaka Murakami plans to make the jump from Japan to Major League Baseball in 2026, he announced in December, via Yahoo Japan. The 2025 season will be his last in Japan, as ...
The Nationals signed outfielder/first baseman Franchy Cordero to a minor league contract, according to Aram Leighton of Just ...
The Detroit Tigers didn't try to sign Shohei Ohtani in 2017. A lot has changed since then, exemplified by an attempt to sign ...
And then there were three. While eight teams were known to have met in person with Japanese right-hander Roki Sasaki, five of ...
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