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Kazuhiro Sasaki is One of Many Japanese Players to Have Big Impact on Seattle Mariners
The Major League Baseball season officially ... one of them now: Closer Kazuhiro Sasaki. Sasaki came to the Mariners before the 2000 season after 10 year-career in Japan with the Baystars.
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Japanese slugger blazing his own baseball path in U.S. via Stanford, MLB Draft League
Sasaki, who hit 140 high school home ... of finding something to fall back on after his baseball career is through. Most Japanese players — including Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani ...
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From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan’s baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
It’s quite a moment for Japan, Japanese baseball and the dozens of players who slowly paved ... Mariners starting in the late 1990s, and Kazuhiro Sasaki was an All-Star closer for the Mariners ...
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Chicago Cubs notes from Tokyo: Matthew Boyd’s roots to Japanese baseball — and a healthy Julian Merryweather
TOKYO — Matthew Boyd’s appreciation for baseball’s popularity ... organization featured two Japanese stars, the legendary Ichiro Suzuki and closer Kazuhiro Sasaki. Boyd later spent the ...