Angels from Japan

[Billy_Ball]

Shigetoshi Hasegawa 1997-2000

Hideki Matsui 2010

Hisanori Takahashi 2011-2012

Hiroyuki Kobayashi 2013 (cut in Spring Training)

Shohei Ohtani 2018-

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[happybat4]

You forgot Matsui 

[laagamer]

Last pic needs more muscles:

Look, they even have the same haircut. 

[Billy_Ball]

4 hours ago, happybat4 said:

You forgot Matsui 

No, he's there.

[Broad Street]

Kobayashi then went on to win numerous championships...

 

 

Eating hot dogs.

[Chuck]

29 minutes ago, Billy_Ball said:

No, he's there.

The Matsui image is broken. Not showing.

[Billy_Ball]

Probably Getty Images.

[Taylor]

Don't forget Ralston Schmidt-san, who attained Japanese citizenship just to prove he could dominate on two different continents, and then returned to the U.S. in his age-40 season and won numerous more MVP awards with the Angels.

[Ohtaniland]

Adam! But is he Chinese or Japanese?

[Lou]

 

[Dick Enberg]

57 minutes ago, OHTANILAND said:

Adam! But is he Chinese or Japanese?

Its all about cheek bone placement. I always though Hideki Matsui looked Korean....

[FromJapan]

On 4/9/2018 at 6:20 PM, Billy_Ball said:

 

Hiroyuki Kobayashi 2013 (cut in Spring Training)

 

Since 2018, Kabayashi has been a technical coach of the Marines Baseball Academy. This academy ia a youth baseball class taught by the coaches of the alumni of the Chiba Lotte Marines (NPB) and the person who has a teacher's license.
 

[Mark68]

On 4/9/2018 at 9:18 AM, Broad Street said:

Kobayashi then went on to win numerous championships...

 

 

Eating hot dogs.

And then became the poster child for unwinnable scenarios (the Kobayashi Maru).