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Japanese Players Overseas

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Japanese Players Overseas
I just became a member of this site and am really pleased with how how comprehensive it is.

I was wondering if you have a link on the year by year history of Japanese players in overseas' leagues, similar to the "study abroad" section you have on your site? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers.
Matt Gillet
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Re: Japanese Players Overseas
[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: May 20, 2004 8:19 AM | YBS Fan ]

That data was contributed from someone who was interested primarilly in the Hawaiian Winter League, and gathered a little more data from that interest. I'm afraid that I don't track data for players outside of Japan.

There is a site that does, though: JapaneseBallPlayers.com [click the "English" link in the upper-right hand corner]. It started off with just Japanese players, but now includes a great many Asian players as well. The site focuses on Asians in MLB, but I think it covers those in the minors as well. There are some related links from there that may be of interest to you as well.
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