The Yankees’ meeting with Japanese pitching sensation Roki Sasaki left them “satisfied,” but their pursuit might still face a significant hurdle: the cultural and financial draw of the West Coast for many Japanese players entering MLB. Teams like the…
In the heart of the 1990s, as Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” echoed through a generation and the internet began its slow crawl into mainstream culture, two young baseball phenoms, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter, took their first steps…