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Tokyo, Feb. 4 (Jiji Press)--Yoshio Yoshida, former player and then manager of the Hanshin Tigers professional baseball team in western Japan, died of a stroke early Monday, the team announced Tuesday.
the baseball club said Tuesday. He was 91. Yoshida steered the Tigers to their first Japan Series championship in 1985 during the second of his three stints as Hanshin manager.
Rodriguez, who was listed by the Tigers as 6-foot-3 ... prospect — three steps below Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki — according to Baseball America, as well as MLB Pipeline.
Twenty teams — including the Tigers — submitted information to Wasserman agent Joel Wolfe after the Chiba Lotte Marines of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball posted Sasaki on Dec. 10 ...