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Originally Posted by GabyKeepsMeWarm
When/if ever has a Japanese/Korean/Asian player posted and been signed by a team not on one of the coasts? Nori Aoki?
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There have been some. Shin Soo-Choo signed with Cleveland. Darvish started in Texas at a time the Rangers weren’t a great team. Kikuchi went to Toronto.
But the high profile guys have always ended up on a coast, it seems.
It sounds like Sasaki may want to go somewhere he is the most prominent Japanese player. Seattle and San Diego and Texas have been speculated as potential options.
I think you’d have to get lucky with a pitch of being Witt’s counterpart for the whole rookie contract. I doubt that would hold any sway.
But I hope he ends up somewhere that is not the Dodgers or Yankees. Seattle would be kind of cool.
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