There has been a decent amount of overlap between the recent history of the Athletics and New York Mets rosters over the past few seasons. The Mets currently ha ...

The Athletics signed 18-year-old Shotaro Morii to a $1,510,500 deal, the largest ever for a Japanese amateur outside of the country’s Nippon Professional Baseball. Morii decided to skip the NPB ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO — (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in ...

But times are changing. Two young stars — 19-year-old Rintaro Sasaki and 18-year-old Shotaro Morii — have moved directly to American baseball, bypassing NPB restrictions and unwritten societal ...