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Baseball: ex-big leaguer Matsui

Hideki Matsui, former slugger who played for the New York Yankees and Japan's Yomiuri Giants, poses for a photo at the Giants' minor league ballpark in Inagi, western Tokyo, on May 7, 2025, in front of worn tatami mats he used to practice swinging on at the club's dormitory as a young player.

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Baseball: ex-big leaguer Matsui at NPB minor league game

Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui throws a ceremonial first pitch in a Nippon Professional Baseball minor league game between the Yomiuri Giants and the DeNA BayStars on May 7, 2025, in Inagi, western Tokyo.

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[Breaking News]Baseball: Shotaro Morii

MESA, United States, March 3 Kyodo - Shotaro Morii, an 18-year-old two-way baseball player just out of high school, takes batting practice at the Athletics' spring training site in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 2025. Morii signed a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball team in January. (Kyodo)

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Baseball: Shotaro Morii

Shotaro Morii, an 18-year-old two-way baseball player just out of high school, meets the press at the Athletics' spring training site in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 2025. Morii signed a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball team in January.

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Baseball: Shotaro Morii

Shotaro Morii, an 18-year-old two-way baseball player just out of high school, swings in a batting cage at the Athletics' spring training site in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 2025. Morii signed a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball team in January.

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Baseball: Shotaro Morii

Shotaro Morii, an 18-year-old two-way baseball player just out of high school, works out at the Athletics' spring training site in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 2025. Morii signed a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball team in January.

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Baseball: Shotaro Morii

Shotaro Morii, an 18-year-old two-way baseball player just out of high school, plays catch at the Athletics' spring training site in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 2025. Morii signed a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball team in January.

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Baseball: Shotaro Morii

Shotaro Morii, an 18-year-old two-way baseball player just out of high school, plays catch at the Athletics' spring training site in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 2025. Morii signed a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball team in January.

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Baseball: Shotaro Morii

Shotaro Morii, an 18-year-old two-way baseball player just out of high school, takes batting practice at the Athletics' spring training site in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 2025. Morii signed a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball team in January.

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Baseball: Shotaro Morii

Shotaro Morii, an 18-year-old two-way baseball player just out of high school, takes batting practice at the Athletics' spring training site in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 2025. Morii signed a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball team in January.

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Baseball: Shotaro Morii

Shotaro Morii (R), an 18-year-old two-way baseball player just out of high school, takes fielding practice at the Athletics' spring training site in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 2025. Morii signed a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball team in January.

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Baseball: Shotaro Morii

Shotaro Morii, an 18-year-old two-way baseball player just out of high school, works out at the Athletics' spring training site in Mesa, Arizona, on March 3, 2025. Morii signed a minor league contract with the Major League Baseball team in January.

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Baseball: Japan teenager Morii signs with A's

Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old baseball player from Japan's Toho Senior High School, speaks at a press conference in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, on Feb. 11, 2025, after signing a minor league contract with U.S. Major League Baseball's Athletics in January.

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CORRECTED: CORRECTED: Baseball: Japan teenage two-way player signs with A's

Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old baseball player from Japan's Toho Senior High School, attends an online press conference on Jan. 15, 2025, after signing a minor league contract with the Athletics. A two-way player with 45 high school home runs, Morii made a rare move for a Japanese prospect in bypassing the Japanese professional league to join an MLB-affiliated club directly from high school or college.

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Hideo Nomo after signing with Dodgers

LOS ANGELES, United States, Sept. 4 Kyodo - Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo (L) meets the press at a Los Angeles hotel on Feb. 13, 1995, after signing a contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers minor league team. (Kyodo)

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Baseball: Tsutsugo rejoins BayStars

Yoshitomo Tsutsugo arrives at Yokosuka Stadium in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, on April 20, 2024, for a minor league game against the Yomiuri Giants -- his first after rejoining the DeNA BayStars. The 32-year-old slugger signed a three-year contract, having played with multiple Major League Baseball and U.S. independent league clubs since 2020.

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Baseball: MLB spring training game

Naoyuki Uwasawa, who signed a minor league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, heads to the mound in the first inning of a spring training game against the Baltimore Orioles on March 15, 2024, in Port Charlotte, Florida.

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Baseball: MLB spring training game

Naoyuki Uwasawa, who signed a minor league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, takes the mound in a spring training game against the Baltimore Orioles on March 15, 2024, in Port Charlotte, Florida.

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Baseball: MLB spring training game

Naoyuki Uwasawa, who signed a minor league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, takes the mound in a spring training game against the Baltimore Orioles on March 15, 2024, in Port Charlotte, Florida.

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Baseball: MLB spring training game

Naoyuki Uwasawa, who signed a minor league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, takes the mound in a spring training game against the Baltimore Orioles on March 15, 2024, in Port Charlotte, Florida.

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Baseball: MLB spring training game

Naoyuki Uwasawa, who signed a minor league contract with the Tampa Bay Rays, takes the mound in a spring training game against the Baltimore Orioles on March 15, 2024, in Port Charlotte, Florida.

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Baseball: Trevor Bauer pitches against U.S. minor leaguers

Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer pitches for the Asian Breeze in an exhibition game against minor leaguers of his former team the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 10, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. Bauer pitched in the United States for the first time after being suspended by Major League Baseball in 2022 following allegations of sexual assault and pitching for Japan's DeNA BayStars for one year.

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Baseball: Trevor Bauer pitches against U.S. minor leaguers

Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer pitches for the Asian Breeze in an exhibition game against minor leaguers of his former team the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 10, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. Bauer pitched in the United States for the first time after being suspended by Major League Baseball in 2022 following allegations of sexual assault and pitching for Japan's DeNA BayStars for one year.

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Baseball: Trevor Bauer pitches against U.S. minor leaguers

Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer pitches for the Asian Breeze in an exhibition game against minor leaguers of his former team the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 10, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. Bauer pitched in the United States for the first time after being suspended by Major League Baseball in 2022 following allegations of sexual assault and pitching for Japan's DeNA BayStars for one year.

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Baseball: Trevor Bauer pitches against U.S. minor leaguers

Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer pitches for the Asian Breeze in an exhibition game against minor leaguers of his former team the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 10, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. Bauer pitched in the United States for the first time after being suspended by Major League Baseball in 2022 following allegations of sexual assault and pitching for Japan's DeNA BayStars for one year.

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Baseball: Trevor Bauer pitches against U.S. minor leaguers

Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer pitches for the Asian Breeze in an exhibition game against minor leaguers of his former team the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 10, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. Bauer pitched in the United States for the first time after being suspended by Major League Baseball in 2022 following allegations of sexual assault and pitching for Japan's DeNA BayStars for one year.

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Baseball: Trevor Bauer pitches against minor leaguers

Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer (L) speaks to reporters after pitching for the Asian Breeze in an exhibition game against minor leaguers of his former team the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 10, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. Bauer pitched in the United States for the first time after being suspended by Major League Baseball in 2022 following allegations of sexual assault and pitching for Japan's DeNA BayStars for one year.

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Baseball: Trevor Bauer pitches against U.S. minor leaguers

Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer pitches for the Asian Breeze in an exhibition game against minor leaguers of his former team the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 10, 2024, in Glendale, Arizona. Bauer pitched in the United States for the first time after being suspended by Major League Baseball in 2022 following allegations of sexual assault and pitching for Japan's DeNA BayStars for one year.

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Baseball: Rays sign Japanese pitcher Uwasawa

Japanese pitcher Naoyuki Uwasawa poses for a photo at the Nippon Ham Fighters' home stadium Es Con Field Hokkaido in Kitahiroshima, northern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2024, after the Tampa Bay Rays signed him to a minor league contract. The 29-year-old right-hander was posted by the Fighters.

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Baseball: Rays sign Japanese pitcher Uwasawa

Japanese pitcher Naoyuki Uwasawa attends a press conference at the Nippon Ham Fighters' home stadium Es Con Field Hokkaido in Kitahiroshima, northern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2024, after the Tampa Bay Rays signed him to a minor league contract. The 29-year-old right-hander was posted by the Fighters.

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Baseball: MLB spring training

Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani speaks to reporters after pitching in a minor league baseball game to get ready for Opening Day on March 24, 2023, in Tempe, Arizona.

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Baseball: MLB spring training

Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani speaks to reporters after pitching in a minor league baseball game to get ready for Opening Day on March 24, 2023, in Tempe, Arizona.

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Baseball: MLB spring training

Yu Darvish of the San Diego Padres pitches against a minor league team during the team's spring training in Peoria, Arizona, on March 25, 2023.

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Baseball: MLB spring training

Yu Darvish of the San Diego Padres pitches against a minor league team during the team's spring training in Peoria, Arizona, on March 25, 2023.

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Baseball: MLB spring training

Yu Darvish of the San Diego Padres pitches against a minor league team during the team's spring training in Peoria, Arizona, on March 25, 2023.

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Baseball: MLB spring training

Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, who signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers, strikes out swinging against Los Angeles Dodgers age Clayton Kershaw during the second inning of a spring training baseball game in Glendale, Arizona, on March 16, 2023.

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Baseball: MLB spring training

Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, who signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers, flies out during the fifth inning of a spring training baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Glendale, Arizona, on March 16, 2023.

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Baseball: U.S. Minor League coach Kurano

Shinji Kurano, former longtime SoftBank Hawks pitching coach and current development coach for the AZL Rangers, a rookie-level affiliate of the Texas Rangers, gives an interview in Surprise, Arizona, on Feb. 22, 2023.

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Baseball: U.S. Minor League coach Kurano

Shinji Kurano, former longtime SoftBank Hawks pitching coach and current development coach for the AZL Rangers, a rookie-level affiliate of the Texas Rangers, poses at the team's spring training home in Surprise, Arizona, on Feb. 22, 2023.

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Watanabe inks minor league deal with Boston

NARITA, Japan - Free-agent right-hander Shunsuke Watanabe answers reporters' questions at Narita airport near Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2013, upon returning from the United States. Watanabe, a former Lotte Marines submariner, said he has signed a minor league contract with the World Series champion Boston Red Sox.

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Japanese pitcher Okajima

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese left-hander Hideki Okajima, a former Boston Red Sox reliever. Okajima has agreed to terms with the New York Yankees on a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training, an article on the Yankees' website said Dec. 28, 2011.

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Baseball: Diamondbacks sign Japan amateur pitcher Yoshikawa

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 25 Kyodo - Undated photo shows Japanese right-hander Shumpei Yoshikawa of corporate league team Panasonic. The Arizona Diamondbacks announced on Aug. 24, 2018, the signing of Yoshikawa to a minor league contract.

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Diamondbacks sign Japan amateur pitcher Yoshikawa

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 25 Kyodo - Photo taken July 15, 2017, shows Japanese amateur right-hander Shumpei Yoshikawa at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. The Arizona Diamondbacks announced on Aug. 24, 2018, the signing of Yoshikawa to a minor league contract.

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Baseball: Diamondbacks sign Japan amateur pitcher Yoshikawa

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 25 Kyodo - Undated photo shows Japanese right-hander Shumpei Yoshikawa practicing in Tokyo. The Arizona Diamondbacks announced on Aug. 24, 2018, the signing of Yoshikawa of corporate league team Panasonic to a minor league contract.

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Baseball: Mariners invite pitcher Iwakuma to spring training

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 17 Kyodo - Hisashi Iwakuma of the Seattle Mariners pitches against the Los Angeles Angels in this file photo taken in Seattle on May 3, 2017. Iwakuma, who has re-signed with the Mariners via a minor-league deal, was invited to the club's spring training on Jan. 16, 2018.

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Minor leaguer Ohka released by Jays

DUNEDIN, United States - Japanese veteran Tomokazu Ohka pitches during a practice game in Dunedin, Florida, on March 22, 2014. After the practice he was released by the Toronto Blue Jays after having signed a minor league contract with the American league team in the winter.

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Darvish has stiff neck

SURPRISE, United States - Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish (R) is pictured after being scratched from the start in a Minor League game due to stiffness in his neck in Surprise, Arizona, on March 21, 2014. At left is pitching coach Mike Maddux.

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Mets' Japanese pitcher Matsuzaka in action against Cardinals

JUPITER, United States - Japanese right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka of the New York Mets pitches in a preseason Major League Baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals on March 2, 2014, allowing two hits and one run in two innings. Matsuzaka has signed a minor league deal with the Mets.

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Ballpark intruder

FRESNO, United States - Fresno Grizzlies mascot Parker captures a man who ran onto the field during a minor league baseball game against the Colorado Springs Sky Sox in Fresno, California, on Aug. 30, 2013.

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Matsuzaka granted release from Indians

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka. The 32-year-old right-hander, who had spent the entire season with the Cleveland Indians' Triple-A affiliate after signing a minor-league contract in February 2013, has requested and been granted an unconditional release from the Indians, the team said on Aug. 20.