With this yr’s MLB free agent market enlivened by worldwide gamers, Ben Lindbergh talks to a few company about three baseball-rich nations. First, Jeeho Yoo of the Yonhap Information Company joins to debate the response in South Korea to Jung Hoo Lee 이정후’s signing, Shin-Soo Choo 추신수’s forthcoming retirement, the legendary profession of Choi Dong-won, and the continuing reckoning with bullying within the KBO and Korean tradition at giant. Then (44:21) Ben talks to NPB historian Rob Fitts about trailblazing Japanese pitchers Eiji Sawamura and Masanori Murakami, and the way baseball can be completely different if Japanese gamers had entered MLB earlier. Lastly (1:12:02), Ben brings on Sami Khan, co-director of The Final Out, a documentary about three Cuban gamers who hoped to make the majors, to debate their harrowing defections and the way a expertise exodus affected Cuban baseball.
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