With this yr’s MLB free agent market enlivened by worldwide gamers, Ben Lindbergh talks to 3 visitors about three baseball-rich international locations. First, Jeeho Yoo of the Yonhap News Agency 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 continued reckoning with bullying within the KBO and Korean tradition at massive. 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 totally different if Japanese gamers had entered MLB earlier. Lastly (1:12:02), Ben brings on Sami Khan, co-director of The Last 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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Link to Yoo on Lee 4
Link to Yoo on Choo
Link to Yoo on Fedde
Link to different Fedde article
Link to Choi Dong-won wiki
Link to Choi Dong-won Award wiki
Link to Yoo on An’s bullying
Link to Yoo on An 2
Link to An scouting report
Link to information on Babcock firing
Link to information on Peters firing
Link to volleyball twins article
Link to Ok-pop bullies
Link to Mel Hall article
Link to Mel Hall wiki
Link to Rakuten bullying
Link to Stove League EW wiki
Link to stream Stove League
Link to translators EW episode
Link to baseball deadening article
Link to KBO guidelines modifications
Link to Yomiuri baseball cheers
Link to Rob’s web site
Link to Rob’s SABR web page
Link to Sawamura wiki
Link to Sawamura Award wiki
Link to posting system explainer
Link to EW Episode 1311
Link to EW Episode 1621
Link to EW Episode 1816
Link to Sugar wiki
Link to Ballplayer: Pelotero wiki
Link to Cuba-NPB/KBO article
Link to publish on Rodríguez defection
Link to article on Rodríguez FA
Link to article on Arocha
Link to The Last Out trailer
Link to The Last Out web site
Link to Q&A with the doc stars
Link to ESPN on Dominguez
Link to article on Cuban baseball decline
Link to ESPN on Cuba and the WBC
Link to moist toes, dry toes wiki
Link to 2018 MLB deal
Link to scuttled MLB deal
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