The 18-year-old Shotaro Morii is zeroing in on the MLB and out of the NPB - not something usual. The post Athlectics’ Own ...
Rintaro Sasaki is a teenage phenomenon who aspires to play Major League Baseball. He is a trailblazer embarking upon an unconventional path for a Japanese ball player.
The 2025 international signing period has been open less than a month, so there has already been a flurry of activity. We’ve talked plenty about the Top 50 international prospects (with links to each ...
This story was excerpted from Martín Gallegos’ A’s Beat newsletter, with this edition handled by MLB Pipeline's Jesse Borek.
The Athletics have announced that they have agreed to terms with 15 international signees, with the most notable being two-way player Shotaro Morii out of Japan, who signed for just over $1.5 million.
The Oakland Athletics signed Japanese two-way player Shotaro Morii, 18, to a minor league contract with a record $1,510,500 signing bonus, seeing him as a potential future star like Shohei Ohtani.
That being said, the fact that he decided to join the Athletics has many fans believing that he could find himself with another club in the near future. Shotaro Morii is not only an exciting ...
The Athletics have signed 18-year-old two-way phenom Shotaro Morii. He's the first Japanese player to sign with an MLB team directly out of high school, and his path to the majors could shake up ...
The Athletics signed 18-year-old Shotaro Morii who hopes to become a two-way player in the majors like Shohei Ohtani. Justin Verlander and his wife Kate Upton are part of an investment group that ...
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 ...