http://yanksgoyard.com A New York Yankees Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:15:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/10/23/is-shohei-otani-on-the-yankees-radar/ http://yanksgoyard.com/2012/10/23/is-shohei-otani-on-the-yankees-radar/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:00:22 +0000 Benjamin Orr http://yanksgoyard.com/?p=9138 The 18-year old Japanese pitcher Shohei Otani has declared he wants to play in MLB. Had Otani gone through the Nippon League draft he would have been locked up for quite a few years until he could declare free agency and jump to MLB. His expressed interest in the MLB started before high school and he said it was always his dream to pitch here. The New York Yankees are among eight teams whose name has been thrown into the ring, including heavy interest from the Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles. Could Otani be someone the Yankees will want to pursue despite their failed attempts with Japanese pitching before?  (more…)

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