Giant Steps Needed in New Era
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Giant Steps Needed in New Era
Jim Allen writes in his weekly Hot Corner [Daily Yomiuri] about how the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks (even while they were the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks) are the only team to be able to compete with the Giants for attracting amateur talent. However, where the Hawks excel at developing that talent, the Giants tend to follow the "moneybag approach" and waste it. Despite the Giants' owner, Takuo Takihana, calling for the development of the Giants' young talent, they follow that statement up with "the trade of two promising young players for rapidly fading star Yoshitomo Tani."
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