Word: irabu
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...Japanization of American baseball is, simply, the Americanization of Japanese baseball. Players in Japan are watching more major league baseball and realizing there's not that much difference. Young players there are also aware of the greater independence, and rewards, enjoyed by their counterparts in the U.S. Irabu wanted to leave the Marines in part because the freedom he had enjoyed under Valentine had been taken away by authoritarian former general manager Tatsuro Hirooka, who fired Valentine despite the team's best finish in 10 years...