When the international signing period opened up in January, the Athletics made a bit of a splash, signing two-way star Shotaro Morii out of Japan. The 18-year-old decided to skip the NPB Draft to ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...

But times are changing. Two young stars — 19-year-old Rintaro Sasaki and 18-year-old Shotaro Morii — have moved directly to American baseball, bypassing NPB restrictions and unwritten societal ...