“I want to congratulate you on a legendary season.” Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old 2-way player, bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics The president took time specifically honoring several ...

First baseman Rintaro Sasaki, for example, is at Stanford. Two-way player Shotaro Morii recently signed with the Athletics out of high school. “There’s drips,” Stearns said. “I don’t ...

Morii also signed in January, and after receiving the highest bonus ever given to an amateur out of Japan – just over $1.5 million – the exciting two-way player will make his debut later this season.

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...

The crack of the bat is almost here with Opening Day for the 2025 Major League Baseball season set for March 27. But while MLB has become known for its melting pot of backgrounds among players, this ...

This popularity has led to some Japanese ballplayers going straight to MLB. Shotaro Morii, 18, and Rintaro Sasaki, 19, "moved directly to American baseball, bypassing [Nippon] restrictions and ...

Two young stars – 19-year-old Rintaro Sasaki and 18-year-old Shotaro Morii – have made an early move to the U.S. Sasaki is a slugging first baseman who plays at Stanford while Morii is a ...