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.

Audio intro: Andy Ellison, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Effectively Wild Theme”

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