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The Mets Met today with free agent pitcher Roki Sasaki, league sources say. ... The Red Sox have historically done very well with Japanese pitchers with athletes like Daisuke Matsuzaka, Koji ...
Daisuke is nicknamed "the Monster of the Heisei Era" (平成の怪物, heisei no kaibutsu) [1] [2] in Japan and "Dice-K" in the United States [3] by The Boston Globe [4] [5] and USA Today. [6] He played for the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Saitama Seibu Lions , Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Chunichi ...
In 2006, the Boston Red Sox paid a king’s ransom for the right to sign Daisuke Matsuzaka, a superstar in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league. He hasn’t pitched in the majors since ...
Daisuke Enomoto (榎本 大輔; born 1971), Japanese businessman Daisuke Matsuzaka (松坂 大輔; born 1980), Japanese pro-baseball player, who also pitched in North American MLB Daisuke Takahashi (髙橋 大輔; born 1986), Japanese figure skater, in men's singles and ice dance; who was men's world champion
A total of 71 Japanese-born [1] [2] players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, twelve are on existing MLB rosters.The first instance of a Japanese player playing in MLB occurred in 1964, when the Nankai Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) team, sent three exchange prospects to the United States to gain experience in MLB's minor league system.
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A total of 94 players belonging to the Matsuzaka Generation have been on one of the twelve professional baseball teams' rosters. Additionally, Matsuzaka and Kazuhito Tadano have played for teams in Major League Baseball. Below is a partial list of said players. It includes only those for which English Wikipedia pages exist (as of October 9, 2010).
But I asked our coach to use me as a starter today." ... Former Red Sox star, and current New York Mets journeyman, pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka rose to national fame after a 250-pitch, 17-inning ...