Shopping rules not fair in baseball's global market
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Re: Shopping rules not fair in baseball's global market
[ Author: mijow | Posted: Apr 22, 2007 10:10 AM
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Ah yes, but if a player like Matsui or Matsuzaka were forced to go through the draft, maybe he wouldn't bother. Why would a player of that caliber give up a successful career in Japan when there's a chance that he could end up playing for a small-market team? These guys don't insist on no-trade clauses in their contracts for nothing.
Also, don't you love the way the writer talks about baseball targeting the Far East as its next area of expansion. Excuse me? The game of baseball expanded to the Far East in the nineteenth century. I think he meant to say MLB - but that indicates the typical American baseball writer's viewpoint - that what's good for MLB is good for baseball.
Baseball in Japan has its own traditions and heroes, and I'd like to think that this latest effort by an American sports organization to take over the world will be fiercely resisted. If the major league clubs want Japanese players so badly, then let them pay a fair price for them!
Also, don't you love the way the writer talks about baseball targeting the Far East as its next area of expansion. Excuse me? The game of baseball expanded to the Far East in the nineteenth century. I think he meant to say MLB - but that indicates the typical American baseball writer's viewpoint - that what's good for MLB is good for baseball.
Baseball in Japan has its own traditions and heroes, and I'd like to think that this latest effort by an American sports organization to take over the world will be fiercely resisted. If the major league clubs want Japanese players so badly, then let them pay a fair price for them!
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An exciting sign of things to come - unless, of course, you happen to root for one of the 25 or so teams that will never be able to touch stars like Ichiro, Dice-K or the next Japanese Big Thing....
[Full Article: http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070418/REPOSITORY/704180302]
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