Word: shortstops
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...Kazuo Matsui is baseball's yojimbo, a free agent from Japan with more suitors than a Muromachi-era princess. No fewer than nine major league teams-including rivals the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox-are reportedly in the running for the services of the 1.75-m shortstop. The question brewing on hot stoves on two continents is not just where this bat-and-glove for hire will wind up but also whether he's willing to change positions or play in the shadow of another Japanese star...
...Kazuo's being dubbed Little Matsui)-has won four Gold Gloves, batted better than .300 for seven straight years, hit at least 20 homers in each of the past four seasons and stolen 30 or more bases five times. In a millennium poll, fans voted him the greatest Japanese shortstop ever. He was 24 at the time...
Here's a trade deficit that the WTO can't fix. Every year, it seems, Japan sends its best baseball player to America's major leagues while the U.S. ships back geriatric has-beens and misfits. This year is no different. The latest Japanese export is skillful, switch-hitting shortstop Kazuo Matsui, who announced on Nov. 17 that he would leave the Seibu Lions and sign with an American team. "It's been my dream to play in the majors," says Matsui, sounding like a replay of the 2002 announcement by the New York Yankees' Hideki Matsui. (No relation...
While Ortiz spent the majority of the year playing DH, the least valuable position in baseball, Rodriguez plays the hardest position in baseball better than any other American Leaguer. To put up monster numbers and be the best shortstop makes A-Rod the clear...
...team. Organizers prefer teams because they draw more fans--crucial for an event trying to sell itself as a spectator sport. Purses are relatively modest, at least by pro-baseball standards. A World Cyber Games winner might get $20,000--less than what the Texas Rangers pay shortstop Alex Rodriguez for two innings...